ipse, otia molli exercens cura, gelido nunc flumine soles frangebat nimios pecori, nunc laetus in herba tondebat niveae splendentia vellera lanae, aut, pecus e pastu cum sese ad tecta referret, noscentes matres spectabat ovilibus agnos.
and he himself, living at ease an unlaborious life, was wont now to temper the excessive heat for his flock by dipping them in the coolness of a river, and now, sitting well pleased upon the sward, to shear their shining snow-white fleeces; or, when the ewes came home from pasture, he would watch how the lambs in the pens recognized their dams.
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