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infants with, goats' milk or hare's brains, dentition is greatly 
facilitated. 
CHAP. 79.— PEO VOCATIVES OE SLEEP. 
Cato was of opinion that hare's flesh, taken as a diet, is 
provocative of sleep. It is a vulgar notion, too, that this diet 
confers beauty for nine days on those who use it ; a silly play^^ 
upon words, no doubt, but a notion which has gained far too 
extensively not to have had some real foundation. According 
to the magicians, the gall of a she-goat, but only of one that 
has been sacrificed, applied to the eyes or placed beneath the 
pillow, has a narcotic eiFect. Too profuse perspiration is 
checked by rubbing the body with ashes of burnt goats' horns 
mixed with oil of myrtle. 
CHAP. 80. — STIMULANTS FOE THE SEXUAL PASSIONS. 
Among the aphrodisiacs, we find mentioned, a wild boar's 
gall, applied externally; swinre's marrow, taken inwardly; 
asses' fat, mixed with the grease of a gander and applied as a 
liniment ; the virulent substance described by YirgiP^ as dis- 
tilling from mares when covered ; and the dried testes of a 
horse, pulverized and mixed with the drink. The right testicle, 
also, of an ass, is taken in a proportionate quantity of wine, or worn 
attached to the arm in a bracelet ; or else the froth discharged 
by that animal after covering, collected in a piece of red cloth 
and enclosed in silver, as Osthanes informs us. Salpe recom- 
mends the genitals of this animal to be plunged seven times in 
boiling oil, and the corresponding parts to be well rubbed 
therewith. Bialcon^^ says that these genitals should be reduced 
to ashes and taken in drink ; or else the urine that has been 
voided by a bull immediately after covering : he recommends, 
also, that the groin should be well rubbed with earth moistened 
with this urine. 
Ajasson explains this by saying that the hare being eaten by the people 
of ancient Latium on festival days, with plenteous potations, they erro- 
neously supposed the narcotic effects of the wine to be produced by the 
flesh of the hare. 
^2 The resemblance of lepos,'* " grace," to " lepus," *' a hare." See 
Martial, B. v. Ep. 29. 
^3 Georg. iii. 280. He alludes to the " hippomanes." 
1* Ilardouin is probably right in his suggestion that ^' Dalion" is the 
correct reading here. 
