geese
animal · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
the geese · twenty geese
spoken of as
1 expressionThe geese1 mention
Odyssey (Greek)
I have twenty geese about the house that eat mash out of a trough, and of which I am exceedingly fond.
in the texts
Odyssey
Penelope's twenty pet geese, killed by the eagle in her dream, symbolizing the suitors doomed to die.
I have twenty geese about the house that eat mash out of a trough, and of which I am exceedingly fond.
Statesman
Fowl bred on Thessalian farms, cited alongside cranes as an example of land-and-air herding.
And surely, even if you have not wandered over the plains of Thessaly, you have heard of goose-farms and crane-farms there and you believe that they exist.