BOOK XI. cviii. 260-cx. 263 



For this reason at the early stages they can only feed 

 by bending their knees, and this goes on till their 

 neck reaches full growth. 



There is a dwarf kind in all species of animals, and 

 even among birds. 



CIX. We have already specified" the species o{ ^>>e genitai 

 which the males have genital organs behind them. 

 These organs are bony in wolves, foxes, weasels and 

 ferrets, which also furnish sovereign remedies for 

 stone in man. In the bear too it is said, these organs 

 become horny as soon as the animal dies. The 

 eastern peoples think that this organ in the camel 

 makes a most reHable bowstring. There are also cer- 

 tain racial distinctions in connexion with it, and even 

 varieties of ritual, the Galli, priests of the Mother of 

 the Gods, practising amputation within the hmits of 

 injury. On the other hand in a few women there is 

 a curious resemblance to the male organ, as there is in 

 hermaphrodites of either sex, a thing that I beUeve 

 first occurred with the class of quadrupeds also in the 

 principate of Nero : at all events Nero used to show 

 ofta team of hermaphrodite mares, that he had found 

 in the Trier district in Gaul, harnessed to his chariot, 

 apparently deeming it a very remarkable spectacle 

 to see the Emperor of the World riding in a miraculous 

 carriage. 



CX. The testicles in sheep and oxen hang down The 

 against the legs, but in pigs they are closely knit to 

 the body. In the dolphin they are very long, and 

 stowed away in the lower pai-t of the belly, and in the 

 elephant also they are concealed. In oviparous 

 creatures they are attached to the loins on the inside, 

 these aniraals being very rapid in copulation. Fishes 

 and snakes have no testicles, but instead of them 



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