90 R A B E T. Clafs I. 



fldns, which are fo cheap, as to be fold on the fpot for 

 a ruble and a half, or 6s. gd.per hundred *, 



The hare was reckoned a great delicacy among the 

 Romaics -f -, the Brilains, on the contrary, thought it 

 impious even to tafte it j: ; yet this animal was cul- 

 tivated by them ; either for the pleafure of the chace-, 

 or for the purpofes of fuperftition, as we are informed 

 th^t Boadkia, immediately before her laft conflidlwith 

 the Romans, let loofe a hare llie had concealed in her 

 bofom, which taking what was deemed a fortunate 

 courfe, animated her foldiers by the omen of an eafy 

 vidtory over a timid enemy \\. 



Species 11. The RABBET. 



Guniculus. The Rabbet, or Lepus cuniculus. Z/>. Jyjf. 77. 



Cony. Raiijjn. quad. 205. Lepus Cauda breviffima papillis 



Me)eri an. \. Tab. 83. rubris. Faun Suec. 26. 



Gefner q-dad. 161. Cuniculus terram fodiens. Klim 



Lepus caudatus.obfcurecinereus, ^uad. ^2. ^ • 



Briffon quad. 95. Br. Zocl. 4.3. 

 Di-Buffoti.-Tom.s'i.TiOl.Tdh.^o,^!. 







N 2 



i M E 



S. 



Brit. 



Cvvnlngen 



- 



Ger. 



Kunigle, Kunek, Kunlefifc 



Trin. 



LeLapin 





Dut, 



Konya 



hal. 



Coniglio 





Svjed. 



Kanin 



Span. 



Conejo 





Dan. 



Kanine 



Port. 



Coclho 









IT is well obferved by Pliny-, that nature ' hath 

 ' fhewed great kindnefs, in cauling thofe things 



* Strahlenheyg's Difc. Rujjia, See. 370. 



7 Inter aves turdus, fs quid me jiidice varum eft : 



Inter quadrupedcb gloria prima Lepus eft. Martial. 13.92. 

 '^ Leporem ei gaUtnani it anferem gujiare fas non putant : hac ta-^ 

 v:(.K a'ant. animi ^coluptati Cnue caufa. Caefar. Com. lib. v. 



II Tcyra «; xiJcii \xyti::' -^i-; vj. ts ^.i^.rb;, &C. Xipkilini Epitome Dio- 



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