Chap. 83.] GENEEATION Or TEEEESTEIAL ANIMALS. 541 
ploys for this purpose all hours both of day and night ; other 
animals become, sated with venereal pleasures, man hardly 
knows any satiety. Messalina,^^ the wife of Claudius Caesar, 
thinking this a palm quite worthy of an empress, selected, for 
the purpose of deciding the question, one of the most notorious 
of the women who followed the profession of a hired prosti- 
tute; and the empress outdid her, after continuous intercourse, 
night and day, at the twenty-fifth embrace. In the human 
race also, the men have devised various substitutes for the more 
legitimate exercise of passion, all of which outrage JN'ature ; 
while the females have recourse to abortion. How much more 
guilty than the brute beasts are we in this respect ! Hesiod 
has stated that men^ are more lustful in winter, women in 
summer. 
Coupling is performed back to back by the elephant, the 
camel, the tiger, the lynx, the rhinoceros, the lion, the dasy- 
pus, and the rabbit, the genital parts of all which animals lie 
far back. Camels even seek desert places, or, at all events, 
spots of a retired nature ; and to come upon them on such an 
occasion is not unattended with danger. Coupling, with them, 
lasts a whole day ; the only animal, indeed, of all those with 
solid hoofs, with which such is the case. Among the quad- 
rupeds, it is the smell that excites the passions of the male. In 
this act, dogs also, seals, and wolves turn back to back, and 
remain attached, though greatly against their will. In the 
greater part of the animals above mentioned, the females 
solicit the males ; in some, however, the males the females. 
As to bears, they lie down, like the human race, as previous- 
ly*^ mentioned by us; while hedgehogs embrace standiog 
upright. In cats, the male stands above, while the female 
assumes a crouching posture ; foxes lie on the side, the female 
embracing the male. In the case of the cow and the hind, 
the female is unable to endure the violence of the male, con- 
sequently she keeps in motion during the time of coupling. 
The buck goes from one hind to another in turn, and then 
comes back to the first. Lizards couple entwined around each 
other, like the animals without feet. 
All animals, the larger they are in bulk, are proportionably 
less prolific : the elephant, the camel, and the horse produce 
39 Justly called by Juvenal, " meretricem Augustam,'* Sat. vi. 1. 118. 
*o B. viii. c. 54. 
