oxherd

As the art of the oxherd is the art of attending to oxen?

The Dialogues of Plato, Translated into English with Analyses and Introductions, by B. Jowett. Plato 1871

SOCRATES: As the art of the oxherd is the art of attending to oxen?

Euthyphro 427? BC-347? BC Plato 1855

Had he done so, Preen Chand would have kicked him off Hannibal even if it meant putting an unschooled oxherd aboard the beast.

A different flesh Turtledove, Harry 1988

An oxherd hight Bubulcus, and is ordained by office to keep oxen: He feedeth and nourisheth oxen, and bringeth them to leas and home again: and bindeth their feet with a langhaldes and spanells and nigheth and cloggeth them while they be in pasture and leas, and yoketh and maketh them draw at the plough: and pricketh the slow with a goad, and maketh them draw even.

Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus Robert Steele 1902

Because it often happens that the oxherd steals the provender. '

A Short History of English Agriculture 1893

They saw many of the small holders displaced and the countryside depopulated; many of the labourers were also thrown out of employment, for there was no need in enclosed fields of the swineherd and shepherd and oxherd who had tended the common flocks of the villagers in the old unfenced fields.

A Short History of English Agriculture 1893

As the dogs are benefited by the huntsman's art, and the oxen by the art of the oxherd, and all other things are tended or attended for their good and not for their hurt?

The Dialogues of Plato, Translated into English with Analyses and Introductions, by B. Jowett. Plato 1871

SOCRATES: As the dogs are benefited by the huntsman's art, and the oxen by the art of the oxherd, and all other things are tended or attended for their good and not for their hurt?

Euthyphro 427? BC-347? BC Plato 1855