Chap. 78.] THE WILD BOAR. 345 



the Censor, in his orations, strongly declaimed against the use 

 of the brawn of the wild boar. 11 The animal used to be divided 

 into three portions, the middle part of which was laid by, 12 

 and is called boar's chine. P. Servilius Rullus was the first 

 Roman who served up a whole boar at a banquet ; the father 

 of that Rullus, who, in the consulship of Cicero, proposed the 

 Agrarian law. So recent is the introduction of a thing which 

 is now in daily use. The Annalists have taken notice of such 

 a fact as this, clearly as a hint to us to mend our manners ; 

 seeing that now-a-days two or three boars are consumed, not 

 at one entertainment, but as forming the first course only. 



(52.) Fulvius Lupinus was the first Roman who formed 

 parks 13 for the reception of these and other wild animals : he 

 first fed them in the territory of Tarquinii : it was not long, 

 however, that imitators were found in L. Lucullus and Q. 

 Hortensius. 14 The wild sow brings forth once only in the 

 year. The males are very fierce during the rutting time ; 

 they fight with each other, having first hardened their sides 

 by rubbing them against the trees, and covered themselves 

 with mud. The females, as is the case with animals of every 

 kind, become more fierce just after they have brought forth. 

 The wild boar is not capable of generating before the first 

 year. The wild boar of India 15 has two curved teeth, project- 

 ing from beneath the muzzle, a cubit in length ; and the same 

 number projecting from the forehead, like the horns of the 

 young bull. The hair of these animals, in a wild state, is the 



11 " Aprugnum callum ;" Plautus, in detailing the preparations for a 

 feast, enumerates the following articles, "pernam, callum, glandium, 

 sumen ;" Pseudolus, A. i. s. 2, 1. 32 ; all of which are parts of the hog. 



12 " Ponebatur." Littre and Ajasson render this, " placed at table." 

 It would appear, however, that the meaning is that this part was put by 

 for salting, and the other parts were served at tahle while fresh. 



13 "Vivaria;" Varro, B. iii. c. 12, and Aulus Gellius, B. ii. c. 20, give 

 an account of the different places which were employed by the Romans 

 for preserving animals of various descriptions, with their appropriate 

 designations, Varro names the inventor Fulvius Lippinus. B. 



14 Varro, B. iii. c. 13, gives an animated description of a visit to what t 

 he calls the leporarium of Hortensius, where, besides hares, as the name 

 implies, there was a multitude of stags, boars, and other four-footed 

 animals. 



15 JElian, De Anim. Xat. B. xvi. c. 37, says, that no boar, either wild or 

 tame, is produced in India, and that the Indians never use the flesh of 

 this animal, as they would regard the use of it with as much horror as of 

 human flesh. B. The " Sus babiroussa" is prohahly meant by Pliny. 



