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Chap. XXX. stinted by a stranger's nursing, (as the other Xenophon 

 declares,) but the mother's milk and breath are cherishing to 

 her puppies. 



Chap. XXXI. When puppies can run about, Xenophon properly recom- 

 ^""p^uppreT'"^ mends that they be fed with milk ; ^ for the filling them with 



Oppian. Cyneg. i) ^a t6(iov reKedv re, Kal apnySvoto yevedXris 



'"• '"' • (pl\Tpov iv\ KpaSlri (ndlev 6f6s' 



rSaaov pa cpvcris KparepuTaTov &Wuv. 



1. Xprj yd\aKTi avarpeipiLi' aiiTci. See Ch. viii. where he also speaks of milk food ; 

 and Xenophon. de Venat. c. vii. 4. The latter recommends milk for the first year : 

 Kal ois fieWei tov airavTa xp6vov PtaxreaOat, &\\o Se yurjSeV — al yap /3ape?a( TrXrjfffxoval 

 rwv (TKvKaKlwv hioiffrpecpovai aKiMj, awfjiaai v6(Tovs iixvoiovcrt, Kal to fvrhs &SiKa 

 ylyvfTai. 



Gratii Cyncg. turn denique foetu 



^^- ^^^' Cum desunt, operis fregitque industria matres, 



Transeat in catulos omnis tutela relictos. 

 Lacte no van) pubem, facilique tuebere maza. 

 Nee luxus alios avidieque impendia vitse 

 Noscant. 



Columella also, and the Carthaginian poet, administer milk to ttie young fry, and 



Pollux with his copyist Paullini adds thereto the blood of the game to which the 



Columella hounds are to be afterwards entered; " Quod si eifoeta lacte deficitur, caprinum 



De He Rust, maxirae conveniet prajberi catulis, dum fiant mensium quatuor :" 

 L. VII. c. 2. 



Nemesian. Interdumque cibo cererem cum lacte ministra, 



Cyneg. vs. 161. Fortibus ut succis teneras conflere medullas 



Possint, et validas jam tunc promittere vires. 



Cvnopranh " ^'^^^ autem despiciendum," says the credulous physician of Eisenach, on the 



Curiosa. authority of Julius Pollux, "cui generi singulos applicare velis, ut eorum auimaliuni, 



p. 33. qua; venation! sunt destinata, sanguinem cum offis statim post ablactationem subiiii- 



nistres," &c. 



■fMflncfrr nf " ^^^^ ''^^ grete nede of bur dame," according to Duke Edmund," in to the tyme 



©anfc. c. XII. that thei be ij monethis olde, and than thei shuld be fedde with gootis mylke or with 



fol. 51. kowes mylk and cromes of brede ymade smale and put there inne ; and specially in 



the raorowe and at nyght by cause that y*". nyght is more cold than the day and also 



men shuld geve hem crommes in fflesh brothe and in this wise men may norfshe hem 



tyl thei be of half yeere olde." 



