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. Dbfirs 08:35, 13 March 2014 (UTC)

... now working, so added. Dbfirs 14:40, 15 March 2014 (UTC)