Oxen
animal · 8 works · 11 mentions · 18 anchored passages
oxen · cattle · ox · bos · boves · eight yoke of oxen · horned oxen · ox-drivers · ox-drivers' teams · the bullock
in the texts
De Agri Cultura
Draft cattle central to ploughing and hauling on the farm.
Bedding should be carefully laid for the cattle and oxen, and their hooves looked to.
Give the oxen elm, poplar, oak, and fig leaves, as long as you have them.
If you do this, the oxen will not throw their fodder out.
De articulis
Cattle used to plow, described as especially prone to hip dislocation due to leanness in winter.
for in cattle the thighs are most apt to be dislocated at the hip-joint, when they are most particularly lean, which they are at the end of winter, at which time then they are particularly subject to dislocations (if I may be allowed to make such an observation while treating of a medical subject);
When, then, a dislocation has not been reduced, but has been misunderstood or neglected, the leg, in walking, is rolled about as is the case with oxen, and the weight of the body is mostly supported on the sound leg, and the limb at the flank, and the joint where the dislocation has occurred is necessarily hollow and bent, while on the sound side the buttock is necessarily rounded.
On the Nature of the Gods
Draft animal whose body is argued to be shaped for the yoke and plough
so great a usefulness was thought to be got from oxen that to feed upon their flesh was held a crime.
Works and Days
Yoked draft oxen, whose handling and yoking are assigned to specific days of the month.
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;
On that day tame sheep and shambling, horned oxen, and the sharp-fanged dog and hardy mules to the touch of the hand.
Vectiarius
Cattle used as a comparative example for how wasting and posture can mimic or accompany dislocation.
The parts put on the appearance of dislocation forward, when the flesh about the joint is wasted during consumption, as also seems to be the case with cattle when in a state of leanness after winter.
the patients walk in a wriggling manner, like oxen;
De Rerum Natura
Animal cited as an example of a creature dominated by the calm air-component of mind, between the extremes of lions and stags.
But more the oxen live by tranquil air,
Pierced through by icy javelins of fear;
Nor e'er doth smoky torch of wrath applied,
Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John
Oxen, formerly liable to seizure as penalty for keeping an unlawed dog, now expressly exempted.
6. Inquisicio, vel visus de expeditacione canum existencium in foresta, decetero fiat quando debet fieri reguardum, scilicet de tercio anno in tercium annum; et tunc fiat per visum et testimonium legalium hominum et non aliter. Et ille, cujus canis inventus fuerit tunc non expeditatus, det pro misericordia tres solidos; et de cetero nullus bos capiatur pro expeditacione. Talis autem sit expeditaci …
Cyropaedia
Draft animals used to move Cyrus's battlefield towers.
and when Cyrus saw his chariot with four poles, he conceived the idea that it was possible to make one even with eight poles, so as to move with eight yoke of oxen the lowest story of his movable towers;
and the eight yoke of oxen drew the tower with the men upon it more easily than each individual yoke could draw its usual load of baggage;
Moreover, when such towers were taken along with each division of the army, it seemed to him that they were a great help to his own phalanx and would occasion great loss to the ranks of the enemy.