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Not only were the slightest trespasses on the forest domain the cutting of an oxgoad, for instance severely punished, but game animals were still sacred when they had wandered from their native precincts and were ravaging the fields of the peasantry.
He it was that drove the nursing women who were in charge of frenzied Bacchus through the land of Nysa, and they flung their thyrsi on the ground as murderous Lycurgus beat them with his oxgoad. Bacchus himself plunged terror-stricken into the sea, and Thetis took him to her bosom to comfort him, for he was scared by the fury with which the man reviled him.
What each judge accomplished against the enemy and what weapon he used-an oxgoad or what? The elements of strength and weakness in the character of the principal men of the period. The New Testament truths illustrated in the life and work of Gideon and Samson. The lessons of practical life illustrated by the stories of Jephthah and Deborah. The facts of the story of Micah and Gibeah.
We climbed in under the green cloth of an old Mexican flag which was used as an awning, and the white-haired Indian driver plodded beside with his long oxgoad. The great piles of soiled linen were fastened on the backs of horses led by other servants, while the girls and women who were to do the washing trooped along by the side of the carreta.
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