Chap. 78.] 
THE WILD BOAE* 
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the Censor, in his orations, strongly declaimed against the use 
of the brawn of the wild boar.^^ The animal used to be divided 
into three portions, the middle part of which was laid by,^^ 
and is called boar's chine. P. Servilius EuUus was the first 
Eoman who served up a whole boar at a banquet ; the father 
of that EuUus, who, in the consulship of Cicero, proposed the 
Agrarian law. So recent is the introduction of a thing which 
is now in daily use. The Annalists have taken notice of such 
a fact as this, clearly as a hint to us to mend our manners ; 
seeing that now-a-days two or three boars are consumed, not 
at one entertainment, but as forming the first course only. 
(52.) Eulvius Lupinus was the first Roman who formed 
parks^^ for the reception of these and other wild animals : he 
first fed them in the territory of Tarquinii : it was not long, 
however, that imitators were found in L. Lucullus and Q. 
Hortensius.^* The wild sow brings forth once only in the 
year. The males are very fierce during the rutting time ; 
they fight with each other, having first hardened their sides 
by rubbing them against the trees, and covered themselves 
with mud. The females, as is the case with animals of every 
kind, become more fierce just after they have brought forth. 
The wild boar is not capable of generating before the first 
year. The wild boar of India^^ has two curved teeth, project- 
ing from beneath the muzzle, a cubit in length ; and the same 
number projecting from the forehead, like the horns of the 
young bull. The hair of these animals, in a wild state, is the 
^1 Aprugnum callam Plautus, in detailing the preparations for a 
feast, enumerates the following articles, ^'pernam, callum, glandium, 
sumen ;" Pseudolus, A. i. s. 2, 1. 32 ; all of which are parts of the hog. 
12 u Ponebatur." Littre and Ajasson render this, " placed at table." 
It would appear, however, that the meaning is that this part was put by 
for salting, and the other parts were served at tahle while fresh. 
13 "Vivaria;" Yarro, B. iii. c. 12, and Aulus Gellius, B. ii. c. 20, give 
an account of the different places which were employed by the Eomans 
for preserving animals of various descriptions, with their appropriate 
designations. Varro names the inventor Fulvius Lippinus. — B. 
1^ Yarro, B. iii. c. 13, gives an animated description of a visit to what 
he calls the leporarium of Hortensius, where, besides hares, as the name 
implies, there was a multitude of stags, boars, and other four-footed 
animals. 
15 ^lian, De Anim. IJsat. B. xvi. c. 37, says, that no boar, either wild or 
tame, is produced in India, and that the Indians never use the flesh of 
this animal, as they would regard tlie use of it with as much horror as of 
human flesh. — B. The " Sus babiroussa" is probably meant by Pliny. 
