Careful Words

ox (n.)

ox (v.)

ox (adj.)

  Cato the elder wondered how that city was preserved wherein a fish was sold for more than an ox.

Plutarch (46(?)-120(?) a d): Roman Apophthegms. Cato the Elder.

  As an ox goeth to the slaughter.

Old Testament: Proverbs vii. 22; Jeremiah xi. 19.

  The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib.

Old Testament: Isaiah i. 3.

  Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.

Old Testament: Proverbs xv. 17.