Oxen
animal · 5 works · 5 mentions · 6 anchored passages
oxen · bos · boves · eight yoke of oxen · horned oxen · the bullock
in the texts
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.
On that day tame sheep and shambling, horned oxen, and the sharp-fanged dog and hardy mules to the touch of the hand.
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;
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 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.
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;