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over, T. Pompeius^ has a great preserve for game, 

 which contains within its bounds a space of about 

 4,000 paces square (about 9,000 acres). In the same 

 enclosure it is usual to have places set apart for 

 snails and beehives, and also casks to hold dormice. 

 However, the keeping, breeding, and feeding of all 

 these animals, bees excepted, present no difficulty, 



3 for everyone must know that, in the case of a hare- 

 warren, the boundary walls should have a coating 

 of plaster and should be high — the first to prevent 

 weasel, marten, or other animal from getting in, 

 the second to make it impossible for a wolf to jump 

 over — and that there should be places of concealment 

 where hares may lie hid during the day in the brush- 

 wood and grass, and trees with spreading branches 



4 to foil the efforts of the eagle. Everyone knows, 

 too, that if you put in but a few hares of both sexes, 

 the warren will swarm with them in a short time, 

 so prolific is this quadruped. Why, if you put in 

 no more than four, the place will shortly be full of 

 them. For indeed, often when a litter has not long 

 been bom, they are found to have others^ inside 



' T, Pompeius. Valerius Maximus (vii, 8, 4) mentions a 

 Pompeius Beginus, vir transalpinae regionis. Was he a large 

 farmer, one wonders, who gave his name to the fig, pear, 

 grape, and cabbage called Pompeian? Cf. Pliny, xv, 15, 18; 

 xix, 8. 



' In venire. Varron rappelle laficonditi du lih)re qui, si cet 

 animal est mis it Pabride ses ennemis dans un pare, est vraiment 

 itonnante. II connaissait ce fait curieux de V organisation de eel 

 animal dont la femelle revolt le mdle et cofi^oit nu^me quand elle 

 est dijh pleine: Aussi a-t^lle, dit BuJJon (vol. vii, 105), en 



