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broad-browed heifer
Descriptive reference · Reported
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Nestor promises Minerva a broad-browed year-old heifer, never yoked, whose horns he will gild before sacrifice.
“a broad-browed heifer of a year old, unbroken, and never yet brought by man under the yoke. I will gild her horns, and will offer her up to you in sacrifice”
Nestor orders the sacrificial heifer selected from the plain and brought to him immediately.
“tell the stockman to look me out a heifer, and come on here with it at once”
The heifer is brought from the plain, has her horns gilded for Minerva’s pleasure, and yields a lock of hair to Nestor’s fire offering.
“The heifer was brought in from the plain, and Telemachus’s crew came from the ship; the goldsmith brought the anvil, hammer, and tongs, with which he worked his gold, and Minerva herself came to accept the sacrifice. Nestor gave out the gold, and the smith gilded the horns of the heifer that the goddess might have pleasure in their beauty. Then Stratius and Echephron brought her in by the horns; Aretus fetched water from the house in a ewer that had a flower pattern on it, and in his other hand he held a basket of barley meal; sturdy Thrasymedes stood by with a sharp axe, ready to strike the heifer, while Perseus held a bucket. Then Nestor began with washing his hands and sprinkling the barley meal, and he offered many a prayer to Minerva as he threw a lock from the heifer’s head upon the fire”
The heifer is felled, bled, and butchered; her thigh bones are wrapped in two layers of fat and burned, and the remaining meat is toasted on spits.
“brought the heifer down with a stroke that cut through the tendons at the base of her neck, whereon the daughters and daughters in law of Nestor, and his venerable wife Eurydice (she was eldest daughter to Clymenus) screamed with delight. Then they lifted the heifer’s head from off the ground, and Pisistratus cut her throat. When she had done bleeding and was quite dead, they cut her up. They cut out the thigh bones all in due course, wrapped them round in two layers of fat, and set some pieces of raw meat on the top of them; then Nestor laid them upon the wood fire and poured wine over them, while the young men stood near him with five-pronged spits in their hands. When the thighs were burned and they had tasted the inward meats, they cut the rest of the meat up small, put the pieces on the spits and toasted them over the fire”
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“a broad-browed heifer of a year old, unbroken”
“Pisistratus cut her throat”