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snail-clover, for it fattens them readily and 



Aices milk. 



^ to the health of the flock there are many 

 ts to be noted; but these, as I said before, the 



v-master has set down in a book. He also 



ies with him what is necessary for the medical 

 ment of the flock. The question of numbei 



tins for discussion. Some people make it greater, 

 rs less, for there is no one scale indicated by 

 re. In Epirus nearly all of us take care to have 

 less than one man for each hundred of the 



^h-coated variety, and two for each hundred of 



"jacketed " sheep. 



' Pliny (N. H., xvili, 16) describes \ts appearance (stmtlis 



7o/io, caule foliisque geniculata : quicquid in caule assurgity 



c&ntrahuntur). According to him it was brought to 



:e by the Medes — whence its name — in the time of 



js. Amphilochus wrote a whole book about It and the 



us. But Aristotle (H. A., iii, 21) states that Medica 



up the milk of animals, especially of ruminants. Tr')c 



^rpof^C h /**>' o^'twvai to yoKa^ oiov »/ Mi/^i/n) troa, kuI fiaXiara 



ft fuipvKdZovai. Palladius (April. Tit., i) repeats Columella, 



id adds that a cyathus full (.082 pint) of seed was enough 



I iow a plot of land 15 ft. by 10 ft. 



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