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HOESES. 
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the poultry-yard with the dog's food ; or else, if they are al- 
ready attacked by the disease, by giving them hellebore. 
(41.) We have a single remedy against the bite, which has 
been but lately discovered, by a kind of oracle, as it were — 
the root of the wild rose, which is called cynorrhodos,^^ or dog- 
rose. Columella informs us, that if, on the fortieth day after 
the birth of the pup, the last bone of the tail is bitten off, the 
sinew will follow with it ; after which, the tail will not grow, 
and the dog will never become rabid.^"^ It is mentioned, among 
the other prodigies, and this I take to be one indeed, that a 
dog once spoke and that when Tarquin was e-xpelled from 
the kingdom, a serpent barked. 
CHAP, 64. (42.) THE NATTJEE OE THE HOESE. 
King Alexander had also a very remarkable horse it 
was called BuciDphalus, either on account of the fierceness of 
its aspect, or because it had the figure of a bull's head marked 
on its shoulder. It is said, that he was struck with its beauty 
when he was only a boy, and that it was purchased from the stud 
of Philonicus, the Pharsalian, for thirteen talents.^^ "When it 
was equipped with the royal trappings, it would sufi'er no one 
except Alexander to mount it, although at other times it would 
allow any one to do so. A memorable circumstance connected 
with it in battle is recorded of this horse ; it is said that when 
it was wounded in the attack upon Thebes, it would not allow 
Alexander to mount any other horse. Many other circum- 
stances, also, of a similar nature, occurred respecting it ; so that 
when it died, the king duly performed its obsequies, and built 
around its tomb a city, which he named after it.^^ 
It is said, also, that Caesar, the Dictator, had a horse, which 
26 T]ie history of this supposed discovery is related more at large, B. xxv. 
c. 2 and 6. The popular name of the plant is still the " dog-rose." — B. 
'^"^ Columella says, that the operation prevents the tail from acquiring 
" fcedum incrementum," "afoul increase;" and, as many shepherds say, 
secures the animal from the disease. — B. 
28 This is one of the marvellous tales related by Julius Obsequens, 
c. 103.-^B, 
29 Plutarch, in his Life of Alexander, gives some account of this cele- 
brated horse, and Aulus Gellius, B. v. c. 2, devotes a chapter to it. — B. 
•"^^ Ajasson estimates the price to have been 70,200 francs, £2925 
sterling. — B. 
31 Situate on the river Hydaspes ; Q. Curtius calls it Bucephalus. — B. 
See B. vi. c. 23, vrhere it is called Bucepliala. 
