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ought to have two teat-like appendages,^ as 

 J which have them are the most fertile. The 

 r should be large, that so they may give milk 



rich and abundant. The he-goat must have 

 -T soft hair, preferably white, neck and throat 

 :, and larynx' comparatively long. The flock 

 es better if it be not a made-up collection, but 

 i^le flock' of old companions. 

 > for the breed, I say what Atticus said when 

 :ng of sheep, with this difference — the race 

 leep is relatively slow-going, inasmuch as 

 jy are of gentler* temperament, while the goat 

 are quicker of movement. About their nimble- 

 Cato in his book **Of Origins," writes these 

 **On Mount Soracte ' and Mount Fiscel- 



Mammulas. Columella (vli, 6, 2) calls them little warts : 

 • cui sub maxiUis binae verruculae collo dependent optimus 

 \r. 



Gur^lione {yapyaptiav). The Geoponica, xviii, 9, trans- 

 this lipoyxoq. It is evidently the larynx — prominent in 

 In the same passage it is said that the goats should be 

 fc. ».^., shagg)'. The word molliori does not seem 

 ht Perhaps melioris is the true reading. 

 j Grex una. G>lumella says (vii, 6, 5): Atque uhi caprae 

 comparantur^ melius est unum gregem totum quam ex 

 \^rQms particulatim mercari^ and gives as reasons ut nee in 

 separatim laciniae diducantur^ ei in caprili maiore con- 

 ']iia quietae consistant. 



Placidiores. Aristotle (H. A. ix, 3): at ydp Site fiaXXov 

 jTprf^^ovcn Kai trpoaipxavrai irpoQ dvOputirovc. 



I Soracti. For a most interesting account of Mount Soracte 

 lint Oreste) see Dennis, "Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria," 



