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ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE GOAT. 297
though sometimes mixed in the same floclc, the two kinds of
animals were generally kept apart ; and to this circumstance
our Savior alludes in his image of the shepherd dividing the
sheep from the goats*.
A sheep and a goat are seen reposing together in a Roman
bas-relief in the Monumenta Mattha^iana, vol. iii. tab. 37. lig. 1.
Rosselini gives two paintings from Egyptian tombs, which ex-
hibit both sheep and goatst ; and he mentions an inscription on
the tomb of Ranni, according to which that person had 120
goats, 300 rams, 1500 hogs, and 122 oxen.
In the account given in chapter II. of the Sicilian Daplmis, an
epigram by Callimaciuis on Astacides, who was a goatherd in
Crete, was partially quoted, probably remarkable for his beauty
and his immature death. The translation of the passage will
now be given.
' A-TTaKiSn" TOf Kpiira, tov ahoXov, "ipiTa(TC Nv/z^j;
'E» opeos' xal viiv lepd; 'A-aTUKiirj;
OiVtt AiKTairiJtv iird ipv(xiv' ovkLti Aaipviv
Uoiiiii/es, 'AcTTaKiSrjv 6' allv dei(76iteOa.
A nyrnph has snatch'd Astacides away ;
Beneath Dictoean oaks our goatherd lies :
Shepherds ! no more your songs to Daplinis pay ;
For now with him the sacred Cretan vies.
Yates's Translation.
Theocritus [Idyll, vii. 12-20.) describes a goatherd of Gydon
in Crete, named Lycidas ; and from the account which he
gives of his attire, we may judge of that commonly used in
ancient Greece by the same description of persons. He wore
on his shoulders the dun-colored hide of a shaggy goat, and an
old shawl was fastened about his breast with a broad girdle.
In his right hand he held a crook of wild olive.
The same author [Idyll, iii. 5.) mentions a fine strong
* " When the Son- of man shall come in his glorj', and all the holy angels with
him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glor>' : and before him shall be gath-
ered all nations : and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd
divides his sheep from the goats : and he shall set the sheep on his right hand,
but the goats on the left."—Matt. xxv. 31-3.3.
zxix.
t Monumenti dell' Egitto, parte ii. Mon. Civili, tomo i. cap. iii. § 2. tavola xxviii.
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