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all these kinds in a warren. You, at any rate, Varro, 

 have I think two, for you were so many years in 

 Spain ^ that I believe the rabbits there followed you 

 here. 



CHAPTER XIII 



OF WILD BOARS AND OTHER QUADRUPEDS 



I As for wild boars, you know, Axius, that they can 

 be kept in the warren, and that without much trouble' 

 both those that have been caught and the tame ones 

 which have been born there are commonly fattened 

 for market ; for you yourself have seen on the estate 

 near Tusculum, which Varro here bought from 

 M. Papius Piso,- wild boars and roes meeting to 

 feed at a fixed hour when a horn ^ was blown, while 

 from an eminence (from the palaestra?*) acorns were 

 poured out for the wild-boars, and vetches or some- 



^ In Hispania. This cannot allude to Varro's short and 

 inglorious campaign against Caesar in Spain, for that hap- 

 pened in 49 B.C., and, as has been shown, these conversations 

 are represented as having taken place in 54 B.C. 



"^ Piso. Cf. note on iii, 3, 8. 



' Ad bucinam. Cf. ii, 4, 20: Suhulcus debet consuefacere 

 omnia ut faciant ad bucinam. Primo cum, incluserunt, cum 

 bucinatum est, aperiunt ut exire possint in eum locuin ubi 

 hordeum fusum in Jongitudine. . . . Ideo ad bucinam convenire 

 dicuntur, ut silvestri loco dispersi ne dispereant. 



^ E palaestra. The meaning of this is obscure, and many 

 unhappy emendations have been proposed. Perhaps in pal- 

 aestra was originally written, for Varro may have seen some 



