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make my herdsman ^ copy out from Mago's books, 

 and 1 take care that he reads one or more of them 

 frequently. You must so regulate the number of 

 bulls and cows as to have two of the former to sixty 

 of the latter — one a year old, the other two. Some 

 maintain either a greater or less proportion : for 

 example, at Atticus's there are two bulls where there 

 are seventy breeding cows. Different people have 

 herds of different sizes; some, like myself, think a 

 hundred ' a good average number. Atticus has 120, 

 as has Lucienus. 



CHAPTER VI 



OF ASSES 



I Thus Vaccius. Whereupon Murrius, who had re- 

 turned with Lucienus while Vaccius was speaking, 



* Armentarium . . . ut legal euro. A common Greek con- 

 struction much used in these books, cf. ii, 9, 15, ili, 10, 4, and 

 iii, 16, 28, which last is an exact parallel to this passage, 

 Aquam mulsam in vasculis prope ut sit curant. Aliquid here 

 Keil would take as an adverb. The adverbial use of aliquid 

 and nihil is of course common enough, but here it seems 

 simpler to connect aliquid with exscripta. Besides, it would be 

 difficult to quote an example of the so-called adverbial use (it 

 is really a cognate accusative) o^ aliquid resembling this at all 

 points. 



' Centenarium. Varro (ii, 4, 22) makes the same statement 

 about a herd of pigs : Sed ego modicum puto centenarium. 



