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Re: The Birds and the Bees of Gender

From:Joshua Shinavier <ajshinav@...>
Date:Wednesday, March 31, 1999, 11:06
> Yes it can! I've seen it used before for sheep! I remember seeing it in > Edith Hamilton's Mythology, where Ajax (I think) goes mad and slaughters a > herd of Greek sheep. "...the poor cattle, slain to no purpose by his hand..."
Then again, I also remember the line "...flocks and herds of the Greeks..." so evidently the victims also included cows. At any rate the animal Ajax thought was Odysseus was a sheep, which he accordingly strapped to a post and beat the hell out of. Maybe "cattle" can be used for both? JJS :-)