Talk:bleating

Example
John Dryden's translation of Virgil, Eclogues, vii, 51 (Hic tantum Boreae curamus frigora,/Quantum aut numerum lupus aut torrentia flumina ripas.)—


 * "We fear not more the winds and wintry cold, Than streams the banks, or wolves the bleating fold."

(This was later famously paraphrased by Francis Bacon as: "It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep be.") Cheers, DanielTom (talk) 13:01, 11 March 2014 (UTC)


 * There's no bleating in the Latin, and Dryden's usage looks adjectival to me, so I've moved it to the citations page. I've replaced it with a clear usage of the noun, and I'll add another example when Google Books starts working again for me.    D b f  i  r  s   08:35, 13 March 2014 (UTC)
 * ... now working, so added.   D b f  i  r  s   14:40, 15 March 2014 (UTC)