Mules
animal · 3 works · 3 mentions · 5 anchored passages
mules · hard-working mules · hardy mules · his mule car team · mules laden with parsley · the strength of mules
spoken of as
1 expressionthe mules1 mention
Olympian (Greek)
Psaumis who, exalting your city, Camarina, which cares for its people, honored the six double altars, at the greatest festivals of the gods, with the sacrifice of oxen and in contests on the fifth day, contests of horse teams, and mule teams, and of riding the single horse.
in the texts
Works and Days
Working mules, gelded, handled, and yoked according to specific days of the calendar.
On the eighth of the month geld the boar and loud-bellowing bull, but hard-working mules on the twelfth.
Again, few know that the twenty-seventh of the month is best for opening a wine jar, and putting yokes on the necks of oxen and mules and swift-footed horses, and for hauling a swift ship of many thwarts down to the sparkling sea;
Olympian
The mule team that draws the poet's chariot of song to the celebration, and also the actual mule-car team with which Psaumis won his Olympic victory.
Psaumis who, exalting your city, Camarina, which cares for its people, honored the six double altars, at the greatest festivals of the gods, with the sacrifice of oxen and in contests on the fifth day, contests of horse teams, and mule teams, and of riding the single horse.
Phintis, come now and yoke the strength of mules for me, quickly, so that we can drive the chariot along a clear path, and I can at last arrive at the race of these men.
For those mules above all others know how to lead the way along this path, since they have won garlands at Olympia, And so it is right to open for them the gates of song;
Timoleon
Mules encountered by chance carrying parsley, initially taken by the soldiers as an ill omen.
As he was marching up a hill, from the crest of which they expected to look down upon the camp and the forces of the enemy, there met them by chance some mules laden with parsley;