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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 edition. Excerpt:...but the agricultural writers do not countenance this. Forb. 307. Gerda comp. Hor. Epod. 2. 35, " Pavidumque leporem et advenam laqueo gruem Iucunda captat praemia." Cranes were a delicacy of the table: but the husbandman might naturally snare them in self-defence: see v. 120. 308. The epithet 'auritos' is said by Macrob., Sat. 6. 5, to be taken from Afranius, who in one of his prologues introduces P1-iapus saying. " Nam quod volgo praedicant Aurito me parents natum, non ita est." Paul. (Fest. p. 8 M.) "auritus a magnis auribus dicitur, ut sunt asinorum et leporum; alias ab audiendi facultate." It is possible that the passage in Macrobius comes directly or indirectly from Verrius Flaccus. H. N. The word itself merely means 'having ears, ' the length of the ears being an inference from the application of the epithet, just as in Soph. Aj. 140, 1r1"rV'TS vrekslas, the notion of fluttering is inferred from the strict meaning 'winged.' 'Figere, ' E. 2. 29. Here the word must mean to hit with a bullet, not with an arrow. 309. "The sling... was made of... hair, hemp, or leather (Veget. De Re Mil. 3. 14.... 'habena, ' A. 6. 579)." " The celebrity of the natives of the Balearic isles as slingers is said to have arisen from the circumstance that when they were children their mothers obliged them to obtain their food by striking it with a sling (Veget. 1. 16)." Dict. A. 'funda.' Rom. has ' torquentes.' 310. 'Glaciem.. trudunt' apparently describes the process of freezing, the rivers driving down the ice in masses, which get stopped and joined together, so that the whole surface becomes frozen. Forb....