1. ‘But now they mock me,men younger than I,whose fathers I would have disdainedto put with my sheep dogs.
2. Of what use was the strength of their hands to me,since their vigour had gone from them?
3. Haggard from want and hunger,they roamed the parched landin desolate wastelands at night.
4. In the brush they gathered salt herbs,and their food was the root of the broom bush.
5. They were banished from human society,shouted at as if they were thieves.
6. They were forced to live in the dry stream beds,among the rocks and in holes in the ground.