Note 35 — LECTURE II. THE GENERATION OF PROVERBS.
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Æschylus, Prom. Vinct. 322; Euripides, Bacch. 795; Pindar, Pyth. 2. 94–96. The image is of course that of the stubborn ox, which when urged to go forward, recalcitrates against the sharp-pointed iron goad, and, already wounded, thus only wounds itself the more.