Note 36 — BOOK X. (continued 2)
Rowland Smith translation
θρῆνος τῶν βοῶν ἐπὶ βουκόλῳ.
Theocritus in Idyll, i. 74, represents the herds as mourning their master's death—
"Πολλαί oι πὰρ ποσσί βόες, πολλοὶ δέ τε ταῦροι, Πολλαὶ δ' αὖ δαμάλαι καὶ πόρτιες ὠδύραντο—"