Religion
Book VI, 255
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. I, 1916)
Saon of Ambracia, the herdsman, broke off this his straying bull’s mutilated horn two cubits long, when, searching for him on the hill-side and leafy gullies, he spied him on the river-bank cooling his feet and sides. The bull rushed straight at him from one side, but he with his club knocked off his curving horn, and put it up on this wild pear-tree by the byre, musical with the lowing of the herd.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Ascribed to Erycius.
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