BOOK XI. xciv. 228-231 



with, flying-fish fly over the sea with damp mem- 

 branes and bats among houses with dry ones ; the 

 ^vings of bats also have joints. 



Shaggy hair grows out of a thick skin, whereas Hair. 

 women have finer hair; horses have abundant hair 

 in the mane, Hons on the shoulders, rabbits on the 

 cheeks inside and also under the feet, hair in both places 

 being also recorded in the case of the hare by Trogus, 

 vvho infers from this example that among human 

 beings also the hairy ones are more hcentious : 

 the hare is the shaggiest animal there is. Man 

 alone grows hair on the private parts, and if this does 

 not occur is sterile, this applying to both sexes. 

 Himian beings have some hair at birth and grow some 

 later; the latter does not grow with men who have 

 been castrated, though the hair they had at birth 

 does not fall ofF; just as women also do not much 

 lose their !iair, although there have been cases of 

 women afflicted with baldness, and also with down 

 on the face, when menstruation has ceased. With 

 some men the hair that comes after birth does not 

 grow readily. Four-footed animals shed their hair 

 and grow it again every year. With men the hair 

 of the head grows fastest and next that of the beard. 

 When the hair is cut it does not grow again from the 

 incision, as plants and all other things do, but con- 

 tinues growing from the root. The hair grows longer 

 in some diseases, especially consumption, and in old 

 age too, and also on the bodies of the dead. Licen- 

 tious people loose the hair they had at birth earher 

 and grow fresh hair more quickly. With four-footed 

 animals the hair gets thicker with age and the wool 

 thinner. Four-footed animals have shaggy backs 

 and bare belUes. 



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