Herd animals
animal · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
oxen · asses · cattle · herds · horses · sheep
in the texts
Hymn 5 to Aphrodite
Cattle, herds, oxen, and sheep define Anchises' pastoral setting and mark the time of Aphrodite's post-union revelation.
And so he put in her heart sweet desire for Anchises who at that time among the steep hills of many-fountained Ida was tending cattle, and in shape was like the immortal gods.
All the others were following the herds over the grassy pastures, and he, left quite alone in the homestead, was roaming hither and thither and playing thrillingly upon the lyre.
Gorgias
Livestock cited as examples in the analogy about a keeper's duty to tame, not wilden, those in his charge.
Well, at any rate a herdsman in charge of asses or horses or oxen would be considered a bad one for being like that—if he took over animals that did not kick him or butt or bite, and in the result they were found to be doing all these things out of sheer wildness.