Animal · Collective

Polyphemus’s very young lambs and kids

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Canonical name: Polyphemus’s very young lambs and kids
Disambiguator: None
Kind: Animal
Scope: Collective
Editorial note: The source follows a mixed lamb-and-kid inventory and leaves the final very-young subset collectively described.

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Polyphemus’s cave1 observation

·Remembered

The very young lambs and kids were kept apart inside Polyphemus’s cave.

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“‘We soon reached his cave, but he was out shepherding, so we went inside and took stock of all that we could see. His cheese-racks were loaded with cheeses, and he had more lambs and kids than his pens could hold. They were kept in separate flocks; first there were the hoggets, then the oldest of the younger lambs and lastly the very young ones {80} all kept apart from one another; as for his dairy, all the vessels, bowls, and milk pails into which he milked, were swimming with whey. When they saw all this, my men begged me to let them first steal some cheeses, and make off with them to the ship; they would then return, drive down the lambs and kids, put them on board and sail away with them. It would have been indeed better if we had done so but I would not listen to them, for I wanted to see the owner himself, in the hope that he might give me a present. When, however, we saw him my poor men found him ill to deal with.”

Claims

·Remembered

Polyphemus keeps his very young lambs and kids apart as a separate flock.

See evidence text

“lastly the very young ones {80} all kept apart from one another”

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·Remembered

“he had more lambs and kids than his pens could hold. They were kept in separate flocks; first there were the hoggets, then the oldest of the younger lambs and lastly the very young ones {80} all kept apart from one another”