CYNEGETICA, 11. 45-68 



above others they wage with utter fury over their 

 mating. One Bull is monarch of a herd and easily 

 supreme, and he rules the lesser Bulls and females ; 

 the herd quake before their mighty horned leader, and 

 the cows of the field too tremble at their own lord in 

 his anger when he bellows. But when a Bull separates 

 from the herd " and arching his mighty neck comes 

 against another all alone, he too being lord and 

 master of his o'wn, then betrvveen the twain arises 

 violent war. First face to face they glare at one 

 another and greatly quiver ^vith ^vildly seething 

 wrath and breathe fiery breath and tear up the 

 earth ^ ^nth their feet, even as if they were \\Testlers 

 dusting themselves <= for the fray. They challenge 

 from either side, loudly bellowing the cry of battle ; 

 and when they have sounded the trumpet for grievous 

 combat, incontinently they charge and straightway 

 with their horns each wounds in turn all the body of 

 the other. Even as in battle upon the deep when 

 the sea War-god raises strife, two ships, splendidly 

 flashing with serried warriors face to face, clash with 

 opposing prows front to front, sped by the \"iolent 

 "wind and the hands of the sailors ; and amid brazen 

 armour rings the din of men and the noise of crash- 

 ing ships, and the whole sea seethes and groans ; 



alvum harenam et solus animalium eo stimulo ardescens. 

 C/. Find. P. iv. 226. 



* Wrestlers anointed with oil and sprinkled themselves 

 with dust ; E.M. s. Koviu ; PluL Mor. 966 c irpoOeaeii Kal 

 xapa(TKeva% ravpwv iirl ixa-xv Koviofievup ; ibid. 970 f SiaKovUadcu ; 

 Lucian, Anach. xxxi. etc.; Anth. Gr. (App. PI.) xxv. 8; 

 Luc. iv. 613 Perfundit membra liquore Hospes (Hercules) 

 Olyrapiacae servato more palaestra, Ille (Antaeus) parum 

 fidens pedibus contingere matrem Auxilium membris calidas 

 infudit harenas. 



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