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tually treated by boiling a she-goat wbole, in her skin, along 
with a bramble-frog. Poultry, they say, will never be touched 
by a fox, if they have eaten the dried liver of that animal, or 
if the cock, when treading the hen, has had a piece of fox's 
skin about his neck. The same property, too, is attributed to 
a weazel's gall. The oxen in the Isle of Cyprus cure them- 
selves of gripings in the abdomen, it is said, by swallowing^® 
human excrements : the feet, too, of oxen will never be worn 
to the quick, if their hoofs are well rubbed with tar before 
they begin work. Wolves will never approach a field, if, after 
one has been caught and its legs broken and throat cut, the 
blood is dropped little by little along the boundaries of the 
field, and the body buried on the spot from which it was 
first dragged. The share, too, with which the first furrow 
in the field has been traced in the current year, should be taken 
from the plough, and placed upon the hearth of the Lares, 
where the family is in the habit of meeting, and left there till 
it is consumed : so long as this is in doing, no wolf will attack 
any animal in the field. 
"We will now turn to an examination of those animals which, 
being neither tame nor wild, are of a nature peculiar to them- 
selves. 
Summary. — Eemedies, narratives, and observations, one 
thousand six hundred and eighty-two. 
EoMAif AUTHOES QTJOTEi). — M.Yarro,^^ L.Piso,^^ Eabianus,^^ Ya- 
Vevius Antias,^^ Yerrius Flaccus,^^ Cato the Censor, Servius Sul- 
picius,-^ Licinius Macer,^^ Celsus,^"^ Massurius,^^ Sextius JSTiger"^ 
See B, viii. c. 41, as to a similar practice on the part of the panther. 
^9 See end of B. ii. 20 gee end of B. ii. 
21 Fabianus Papirius, see end of B. ii. For Fabianus Sabinus, 
25 Servius Sulpicms Lemonia Eufus, a contemporary and friend of Cicero. 
He was Consul with M. Claudius Marcellus, b.c. 51, and died b.c. 43, at 
the siege of Mutina. He left about 180 treatises on various subjects; but 
beyond the fact that he is often quoted by the writers whose works form 
part of the Digest, none of his writings (with the exception of two letters 
to Cicero) have come down to us. 
See end of B. xix. 27 g^e end of B. vii. 
2^ See end of B. vii. ]j jj^i^ 
see end of B. xviii. 
'^'^ See end of B. iii. 
22 See end of B. ii. 
-'^ See end of B. iii. 
