Trampling the little monster down under his right foot. They attack by trampling their targets, biting them, or crushing them with their grasp. Dictatorship is trampling the masses under foot. Cattle are a known cause for soil erosion through trampling of the ground and overgrazing. Trampling grazers kill seedling trees but not grasses. It can survive fairly close grazing, trampling, and mowing. Protected wildlife has entered agricultural areas, trampling crops and killing livestock. Aratus describes Ophiuchus as trampling on Scorpius with his feet. Most of the deaths were from asphyxiation or trampling. The rebel army was slaughtered, with the elephants trampling most to death. Cattle also overgrazed fertile fields, killing vegetation that was able to survive extensive trampling. Sambhaji gave the order to execute the traitors by trampling them under elephant. In addition, the soil becomes compacted by the trampling of livestock. It may derive from Roman models, which frequently depicted images of warriors trampling vanquished enemies. He is trampling the figure of a bound, richly dressed captive.