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boar, a ram, and a bull are driven round the city ; 

 and finally, that we have many Roman names de- 

 rived from both kinds of cattle, the larger and the 

 less? From the less, Porcius, Ovinius, Caprilius, 

 and similarly from the larger, Equitius, Taurius, 

 Asinius. The same point is further illustrated by 

 the use of the names of cattle as cognomina^ 

 in the case of the families the Anni Caprae,' the 

 Statili Tauri, the Pomponi Vituli, and many others 

 who get their names from cattle. 



There remains for discussion the theory and 

 practice of cattle-grazing; and Scrofa, to whom 

 our generation assigns the palm in every depart- 

 ment of agriculture, will discuss it, as he is better 

 qualified than the rest of us. 



Here everybody looked at Scrofa, and he began, 



Well, gentlemen, it is a science which is concerned 



with the acquiring and feeding of cattle to the end 



that the greatest possible profit may be made from 



it — from those animals to which money {pecunia) 



itself owes its name. For cattle are the origin of all 



money. 



Th is science has nine parts — t hree separate sets 



\ ofTttTee — the subject matter of one part being the 



• smaTtST'cattle, ofwEich there are three kinds — 



' sheep, goats^ pigs ; thatof the second the large cattle, 



' Anni Caprae. Cf. Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae (about 



the middle) : lii gal twv dvn^UTUJV iroWA roif TraXaiolc cvt'Wiui Kal 

 (^mfivXtcoi Kai TdpKtoi f/aav uf; tpaiviaTtWai; (Feneslclla) tipriKii/. 



