Living
Book X, 101
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. IV, 1918)
Look, the heifer draws the instrument that cuts the earth, and is followed by the calf she is suckling ! She dreads the husbandman at her heels, and waits for her little one, sagaciously careful of both. Thou who followest the plough up and down the field, who turnest up the soil, hold thy hand, nor drive her who bears the double burden of two labours.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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