Note 14 — Chapter II · - ARTS OF SUBSISTENCE.
Reading edition
We learn from the Iliad that the Greeks milked their sheep, as well as their cows and goats:
ὥστ' ὄϊες πολυπάμονος ἀνδρὸς ἐν αὐλῇ μυρίαι ἑστήκασιν ἀμελγόμεναι γάλα λευκὸν.—Iliad, iv, 433.
Reading edition
We learn from the Iliad that the Greeks milked their sheep, as well as their cows and goats:
ὥστ' ὄϊες πολυπάμονος ἀνδρὸς ἐν αὐλῇ μυρίαι ἑστήκασιν ἀμελγόμεναι γάλα λευκὸν.—Iliad, iv, 433.