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when he has a companion grows keener than before, 

 and if one or other falls ill, the flock need not be 

 without a dog. 



CHAPTER X 



OF SHEPHERDS 



1 Atticus looked round as though to ask whether 

 he had omitted any point, and I remarked: This 

 silence calls another actor on to the stage, for in 

 this act the only part left is to determine the number 

 and nature of the shepherds to be kept. Then said 

 Cossinius : For the larger cattle you need older men, 

 for the smaller even boys will do, but either men or 

 boys whose life is spent in forest tracks must be 

 stronger than those who return home every day to 

 the farmstead. Thus in forest glades one may see 

 men in the prime of life, and armed as a rule, while 

 on the farm even girls as well as boys look after the 



2 flock. You must make your shepherds feed their 

 flocks throughout the day, letting the flocks graze 

 all together, but at night they must separate and 

 each shepherd stay with his own. They must all be 

 under one flock-master who should be older than 



Est ut viro vir latins ordinet^ etc., and resembles the Greek 

 lOTiv Hnm. Cf. Soph. (Phil., 6, 56): a{i loriv uare KayyvOev d'lav 

 Xa/3<iv. One would have expected, however, est ut non (or ut 

 ne) . . . sit. .\nd perhaps ut ne . . . sit was written. 



