Genesis 31:40 [Thus] I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes.
Ver. 40. Thus I was; in the day, &c.] Nonresidents do none of all this, those idol, and idle shepherds: they cry out, as he, Pan curet oves, oviumque magistros; a being herein not only worse than this good shepherd in the text, but also than Ulysses' swineherd, in Homer, who would not lie from his charge, b
a Virg.
b Oυδε συβωτη Hνδανεν αυτοθι κοιτος υων απο κοιμηθηναι. - Odyss., xiv. 525.