Aonde hirá o boi, que naõ lavre, pois que sabe?Where shall the ox go bid he must labour, since he knows how?
Translation in the cited editionTradizione portoghese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesWhere shall the ox go bid he must labour, since he knows how?
Tradizione portoghese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
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- Henry G. Bohn · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs (1857) · PORTUGUESE PROVERBS · paragrafo 74 · «Aonde hirá o boi, que naõ lavre, pois que sabe?»
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