
Counting the Miser's Endless Herds
From D10.16, A Bramble-Grubber Reveals Farshidvard’s Guilt. It illustrates D10.16.25–32:
- D10.16.25He led the troop across both hill and plain,Past countless flocks that whitened every lane.
- D10.16.26Ten camel caravans filled that domain,Each with a keeper in that wealthy train.
- D10.16.27Each caravan was led by a cameleer,Who tended all the camels gathered here.
- D10.16.28Twelve thousand cattle next the scribe enrolled,For milk and plowing, kept in herdsmen’s fold.
- D10.16.29Full twenty thousand steeds and camels spread;The meadows withered underneath their tread.
- D10.16.30Three hundred thousand camel-loads were storedOf curds upon the mountains, hoard on hoard.
- D10.16.31There jars of butter filled pits in the ground;Fresh curds and dried lay heaped in mounds around.
- D10.16.32Height, slope, and level held wealth past account;Yet none had ever reckoned its amount.
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