Note 1 — Chapter II · THE PINE PROCESSIONARY: THE NEST; THE COMMUNITY
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation
Drover Dingdong’s Sheep followed the Ram which Panurge had maliciously thrown overboard and leapt nimbly into the sea, one after the other, “for you know,” says Rabelais, “it is the nature of the sheep always to follow the first, wheresoever it goes; which makes Aristotle mark them for the most silly and foolish animals in the world.”1