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EPIGRAM by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON

First Line: STONE OX! IF WE WERE HUNGRY YOU WOULD SATISFY BUT LITTLE US
Last Line: YOU NEVER WERE A CALF; THOUGH CARV'D, YOU WERE NOT CARV'D TO VICTUAL US.
Subject(s): EPIGRAM (AS LITERARY FORM); GRAVES; TOMBS; TOMBSTONES;
An ox carved in stone, and placed over the door of the public slaughter-
house at Nuremberg, bears the following inscription:—

@3Omnia habent ortus suaque incrementa, sed ecce, Quem cernis nunquam bos
fuit hic vitulus.@1

STONE ox! if we were hungry you would satisfy but little us:
You never were a calf; though carv'd, you were not carv'd to victual us.



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