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The cattle, usually loath to return homeward, now rushed

together, and, without waiting for their keepers, deserted their

pasturage and ran towards the barn. The bull dug up the ground

with his hoof and ploughed it with his horns, frightening all the

herd with his ill-omened bellowing; the cow kept raising her

large eyes to the sky, opening her mouth in wonder, and lowing

deeply. But the boar lagged behind, fretting and gnashing his

teeth, and stole sheaves of grain and seized them for his stores.