Re: The Birds and the Bees of Gender

> 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 :-)