A Fretful Porpentine

Eight & twenty DNI: (1) Shepherds of wool-bearing sheep who pay taxes in silver rather than supplying a white sheep, as is the proper custom; (2) temple administrators who take, in lieu of corvée duty, garments of the type known as "Ear of the Mongoose," outer woolen garments, naked flax, flax tied in bundles, bronze helmets, arrows, burnished leather, wing-feathers of a yellow raven, or goats with full fleece; (3) undertakers who take seven jugs of beer, four hundred and twenty loaves of bread, seventy-two liters of barley, one woolen garment, one bed, and one chair when they bring corpses to the grave; (4) governors who use the oxen of the gods to plow their own garlic and cucumber plots; (5) livestock officials who appropriate asses; (6) livestock managers who appropriate sheep; and (7) fisheries inspectors who appropriate taxes.