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more cheese in the milk of the cow than of the goat : for 

 the shepherds say, from an amphora of goat's milk they can 

 make nineteen cakes of cheese, each worth an obolus, and 

 thirty from cow's milk. Other creatures have only enough 

 for their young, and no superabundance useful for making 

 cheese, as all those animals which have more than two mam- 

 mae, for none of these have a superabundance of milk, nor 

 will their milk make cheese. 



6. Milk is coagulated by the juice of figs, and by rennet ; 

 the juice is placed upon wool, and the wool is washed in a 

 little milk ; this coagulates upon mixture. The rennet is a 

 kind of milk, which is found in the body of sucking animals. 

 This rennet is milk, containing cheese, for the milk be- 

 comes cooked by the heat of the body. All ruminating ani- 

 mals contain rennet, and the hare among those with cutting 

 teeth in both jaws. The older coagulum is the better, 

 for such rennet is useful in diarrhrea, and so is that of the 

 hare. The rennet of the fawn is the best. 



7. The greater or less quantity of milk drawn from 

 those animals which have milk, differs in the size of the 

 body, and the variety of the food. In Phasis there are very 

 small cows, each of which gives a great deal of milk ; and 

 the large cows of Epirus give an amphora and half 

 of milk from each of their two mammae ; and the person 

 who milks them stands up, or only leans a little, because 

 he cannot reach them sitting down. The other animals of 

 Epirus are large except the ass, but the largest are the 

 cows and the dogs. These large cattle require more pas- 

 ture ; but the country has a great deal so excellent, that 

 they can be changed to fit places every hour. The oxen 

 are the largest, and the sheep, called Pyrrhic ; they have 

 received this name from king Pyrrhus. 



8. Some kinds of food check the milk, as the medic grass, 

 especially in ruminating animals. The cytisus and oro- 

 bus have a very different effect; but the flower of the 

 cytisus is unwholesome, and causes inflammation; the orobua 

 does not agree with pregnant cattle, for it causes difficulty 

 of parturition. On the whole, those animals which are 

 able to eat the most food, as they are better adapted for 

 parturition, will also give the most milk, if they have enough 

 food. Some of the flatulent kinds of food, when given to 



