1 In return, I will offer you in sacrifice a broad-browed heifer of a year old, unbroken, and never yet brought by man under the yoke.
2 All that day did they travel, swaying the yoke upon their necks till the sun went down and darkness was over all the land.
3 They took their sweating steeds from under the yoke, made them fast to the mangers, and gave them a feed of oats and barley mixed.
4 If, moreover, you have a fancy for making a tour in Hellas or in the Peloponnese, I will yoke my horses, and will conduct you myself through all our principal cities.
5 They swayed the yoke upon their necks and travelled the whole day long till the sun set and darkness was over all the land.
6 I rested my temples on the breast of temptation, and put my neck voluntarily under her yoke of flowers.
7 I should suffer often, no doubt, attached to him only in this capacity: my body would be under rather a stringent yoke, but my heart and mind would be free.
8 But yet these same beasts are wont in time to enter harness, and carry yoke and bit in concord; there is hope of peace too, says he.
9 One snatches a helmet hurriedly from his house, another backs his neighing horses into the yoke; and arrays himself in shield and mail-coat triple-linked with gold, and girds on his trusty sword.
10 Dragged along and hanging by the yoke he is left uncovered; the broad lance-head reaches him, pins and pierces the double-woven breastplate, and lightly wounds the surface of his body.
11 One longed to throw off that yoke that crushed us, all decent people among us.
12 The good-looking young woman in clogs, swinging the empty pails on the yoke, ran on before him to the well for water.
13 I, too, want a harpoon made; one that a thousand yoke of fiends could not part, Perth; something that will stick in a whale like his own fin-bone.
14 Meanwhile, I will try to bear up under the yoke.
15 I shall call to me all the men and the women whose spirit has not been killed within them and who suffer under the yoke of their brothers.