She-goat
animal · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
eight she-goats · goat-skins · she-goat
spoken of as
1 expressionShe-goats1 mention
Orations (Greek)
eight she-goats, a hornless cow, a very fine calf from her, four sickles, four mattocks, three spears, and a knife each of us has against the beasts.
in the texts
Orations
Goats owned by the huntsman, part of the small inventory of possessions listed to the city assembly.
eight she-goats, a hornless cow, a very fine calf from her, four sickles, four mattocks, three spears, and a knife each of us has against the beasts.
For bear-skins, I said, are hard, and goat-skins are not worth these;
Lycurgus
The animal customarily sacrificed by the king before Spartan armies engaged in battle.
And when at last they were drawn up in battle array and the enemy was at hand, the king sacrificed the customary she-goat, commanded all the warriors to set garlands upon their heads, and ordered the pipers to pipe the strains of the hymn to Castor;