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now in many places there are several kinds of wild 

 animals; there are sheep, for instance, in Phrygia, 

 where many flocks are to be seen, and in Samo- 

 thrace there are wild she-goats of the kind called in 

 Latin Totae.^ For many exist in the neighbourhood 

 of MountFiscellum'^and Mount Tetrica.^ Everybody 

 knows about wild pigs — except the man who thinks 

 that wild boars are not properly called pigs. At 

 the present day quite wild bulls are found in Dar- 

 dania, Maedica and Thrace, wild asses in Phrygia 



ad Lycaonia, and wild horses in Hither Spain, in 



ome districts. 



6 The origin of the art is as I have stated; its high 



repute I proceed to show. Amongst the ancients the 



most famous men were all shepherds, as is evident 



from both the Latin and Greek languages, and 



from the old poets who call some of their heroes 



folyamae^ others polymeloi^ and others polyhutae^ 



nd to express their costliness they stated that the 



iieep had actually golden fleeces, like the one at 



\rgos which, Atreus complains, had been stolen 



' Kotos. Scaliger conjectures (p. 233) platycerotas from 

 Pliny (N. H., xi, 37). Platyce rotas might easily be corrupted 

 V the unintelligent copyist into Latine rotas — two words 

 .vhich he understood. Schneider's conjecture, strepsicerotasy 

 does not account for the word Latine. 

 ' Fiscelluniy near Soracte. 

 Tetrica^ in Northern Italy, on the borders of the Picentine 

 ntry. 



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