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ind that they do not come from a diseased herd?" 

 -^ome people add *' and have got through fever and 

 diarrhoea." ' 



For the pasturing of this kind of stock a damp 



place is suitable, for it delights both in water and 



in mud. And * this is the reason, they say, why a 



wolf which has got hold of a sow drags it to the 



water, as its teeth cannot bear the heat of the flesh. 



i'his animal (the pig) feeds especially on acorns — 



ailing them, on beans, barley, and other grains, 



or these not only produce fat, but also give the 



lesh a pleasant flavour. 



In summer they are driven out to pasture in the 

 morning before the heat begins to a shady place, 

 where there must be water. In the afternoon, when 

 the great heat has abated, they are allowed to graze 

 again. In the winter-time we do not drive them out 



* Faria. Nonius (Foriolus) : Foriolus, qui for ia facile emittat, 



soluti scilicet ventris. He defines foria as stercora liquidiora. 



Aristotle (Hist. An., viii, 21) says that pigs suffer from three 



diseases: (i) fipayxoQ, characterized by inflammatory swelling 



>f the throat and jaws ; (2) fever (xpavpa) accompanied by head- 



iche and dullness, which may be cured, but usually kills in 



ihrec or four days ; and (3) diarrhoea, ' ' which appears to be 



incurable." Avo 0' dXX' iari, Xiyfrai Si xpavpav dfi<p<jj wv t6 fikv 



-fpov koTi KKpaXrJQ irovoQ xai (3dpog . . . to d' 'iripoVf 7) KoiXia pel, 



• " Toirro fUv coKiT dviarov dvat. Varro obviously alludes to 



2) and (3). xpavpa in (2) is, to judge from the rest of Aristotle's 



:ription, a scrofulous disease accompanied by fever. Colu- 



rlla (vii, 10) and the Geoponica (xix, 7) also discuss the 



"iubject. 



^^ ' Itaqtie^ etc. The meaning is, of course, swine love to bathe 



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