CYNEGETICA, III. 515-525 



they yearn to mate and while the females are still 

 pregnant they do not reject the lustful advances of 

 the male, not even when they carry in the womb 

 the swift arrow of fruitfulness. For this tribe, among 

 all that the infinite earth breeds, is the most prolific." 

 The one embryo* comes forth from the mother's womb 

 full-formed, while she carries one within her still 

 hairless, and nourishes another half-formed, and has 

 in her womb yet another — a formless foetus to look 

 on. In succession she brings them forth and the 

 shameless female never forgets her lust but fulfils 

 all her desire and not even in the throes of birth 

 does she refuse her mate. 



(TvWafi^dvei ?ti dr/Xa^oijAvy) ; <•/. 542 b 31 ; I)e gen. 774 a 31 ; 

 Xen. G, 5. 13 iroKvyovov 5' i<rTiv oitojs UKrre to. fxev riroKt, to. 

 5i TiKTfi, ri 5^ (cue?; Ael. ii. 12 <p^pei 5e /cai ^v t^ vijSvi ra fxev 

 T}IMTe\ri, TO, de ibSlvti, to. Se ijST] ol rertKrai ; Plin. viii. 219 

 Lepus omnium praedae nascens solus praeter dasypodem 

 superfetat, aliud educans, aliud in utero pilis vestitum, aliud 

 implume, aliud inchoatum gerens pariter ; Poll. v. 73 ; 

 Eratosth. Catasf. 34; Athen. 400 e; Phil. 61; Varro iii. 

 12. 4 ; Clem. Alex. Paed. ii. p. 291. 



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