Chap. 81.] STJMMATIT. 367 



tually treated by boiling a she-goat whole, in her skin, along 

 with a bramble-frog. Poultry, they say, will never be touched 

 by a fox, if they have eaten the dried liver of that animal, or 

 if the cock, when treading the hen, has had a piece of fox's 

 skin about his neck. The same property, too, is attributed to 

 a weazel's gall. The oxen in the Isle of Cj'prus cure them- 

 selves of gripings in the abdomen, it is said, by swallowing^^ 

 human excrements : the feet, too, of oxen will never be worn 

 to the quick, if their hoofs are well rubbed with tar before 

 they begin work. Wolves will never approach a field, if, after 

 one has been caught and its legs broken and throat cut, the 

 blood is dropped little by little along the boundaries of the 

 field, and the body buried on the spot from which it was 

 first dragged. The share, too, with which the first furrow 

 in the field has been traced in the current year, should be taken 

 from the plough, and placed upon the hearth of the Lares, 

 where the family is in the habit of meeting, and left there till 

 it is consumed : so long as this is in doing, no wolf will attack 

 any animal in the field. 



We will now turn to an examination of those animals which, 

 being neither tame nor wild, are of a nature peculiar to them- 

 selves. 



SuMMAET. — Eemedies, narratives, and observations, one 

 thousand six hundred and eighty-two. 



Roman- atjthoes quoted. — M.Varro,'^ L.Piso,^° Fabianus,-^ Va- 

 lerius Antias,-- VerriusTlaccus,-^ Catothe Censor,-^ Servius Sul- 

 picius,-^ Licinius Macer,-^ Celsus,^'' Massurius,'^ Sextius Niger' 



IS See B, viii. c. 41, as to a similar practice on the part of the panther. 



i^ See end of B. ii. -" See end of B. ii. 



21 For Fabiamis Papirius, see end of B. ii. For Fabianus Sabinus, 

 see end of B. xviii. -^ See end of B. ii. 



-'■^ See end of B. iii. -* See end of B. iii. 



2» Servius Sulpicius Lemonia Hufus, a contemporary and friend of Cicero. 

 He was Consul with M. Claudius MarccUus, n.c. 51, and died b.c. 43, at 

 the siege of Mutina. He left about ISO treatises on various subjects ; but 

 beyond the fact that he is often quoted by the writers whose works form 

 part of the Digest, none of liis writings (with the exception of two letters 

 to Cicero) have come down to us. 



26 See end of B. xix. 27 ggg g^d of B. vii. 



28 See end of B. vii. 2a g^e end of B. xii. 



