GYNEGETICA, II. 69-86 



even^ in such wise the din of the Bulls ascends to 

 heaven, as they smite amain and are smitten with 

 their horns, until one wins the dear and doubtful 

 victory. But the vanquished " cannot endure the yoke 

 of slavery. Ashamed and groaning heaWly he goes 

 unto a shady wood and alone among the rocks as 

 the seasons circle round he pastiu-es, retired among 

 the thickets of the hill, as an athlete in training.'' 

 And when he beholds his debated power and strength 

 have waxed mighty,*^ he straightway hfts up his voice 

 upon the mountains ; and the other answers ; and 

 therewith the forest resounds. But when he takes 

 good heart for his mightier cry, then straightway 

 from the hiUs he comes to meet his foe and easily 

 overcomes him. For he has made his body fit by 

 his pasture in the forest far from that lust of sex 

 which saps the strength."* 



Many are the forms and countless the characters 

 of Bulls. The Egyptian Bulls there are by the fruit- 

 ful banks of the Nile which makes the wheat to grow, 

 a many-branched river ; white of colour they are 

 and far the greatest of aU in size * : thou wouldst say 



Stat. T. ii. -251 Sic ubi regnator post exulis otia tauri 

 Mugitum hostilem summa tulit aure iuvencus Agnovitque 

 minas, magna stat fervidus ira Ante gregem spumisque 

 animos ardentibus eflBat, Nunc pede torvus humum, nunc 

 cornibus aera findens ; Horret ager trepidaeque expectant 

 proelia valles. 



" Verg. G. iii. 209 ; A. 51 5 a 20 ; AeL I.e. 



' A. 606 a 21 ev AiyvTT<f) to. fieif aWa ixel'iw fi iv 7-g EXXdot, 

 Kodaxtp oi (36«j (cai to. -rpo/iaTa. Prof. D'Arcy Thompson 

 writes: "The Egyptian bulls were large, but not 'white.' 

 The bidls of Apis were black, with white markings ; those 

 mentioned here were probably the light-coloured bulls of 

 Mnevis. Both had long, lyre-shaped horns, the tj-pe still 

 suniving at Khartoum, etc. (Bos Africanug Brehm)." 



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