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le wind, just as hens frequently do with us, the 

 ^^gs of which we call '^ wind-eggs." ^ The foals, 

 however, bom of these mares do not live longer 

 than three years. 



See to it that the young which are born at full 

 term or after have a clean and soft place to stand 

 upon, and that they be not trampled under foot. 

 Those lambs are called cordi which are born after 

 the regular time, having remained in the internal 

 membrane, which is called chorion^^ whence the 

 name cordu 



The third section deals with the knowledge neces- 



1 sary in rearing animals, and tells you, in respect of 

 \ this, for how many days the young should be 

 I suckled by the mother, and the time when, and 

 [ place where, this is to be done. It instructs you, if 



the mother has not milk enough, to put them to the 

 breast of another mother. Those with whom this is 

 done are called subrtimi, for rumis^ was, I imagine, 

 the ancient word for ^^ breast." 



Hypenemia, vTnjvffna (Aristotle, Hist. A., v, i). Pliny 

 (N. H., X, 60) calls them irrifa, and says that they are sterile, 

 small, of poorer flavour, and more watery than good eggs. 

 ^ Chorion. Keil thinks that several words have here dropped 

 u from the text; the literal translation of which, as it stands, 

 of course: "That from which they get the name oi cordi is 

 Med the chorion " — which was probably all the explanation 

 irro meant to give. 



' Rumis. Cf. ii, 11, 5, and Pliny (N. H., xv, 18) : lupa in/an- 



'hus praebens rumen {ita vocahant manunam), and Varro (Ant. 



R, D. Agahd., p. 170) : quia rumam dixerunt veteres mamntam 



(from Aug., De Civ. Dei, iv, 11). The goddess who looked 



after the suckling of children was called Rumina, and the fig- 



