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VI. While Vaccius was speaking, Murrius had returned with Lucienus and now began: "I propose to tell about asses as well I may, because I am from Reate where the best and the largest are found; indeed, I have sold to the Arcadians themselves asses of this race and of my own breeding.
Leave out, if you wish, the two chapters relating to breeding in so far as mules are concerned." "But why should we," exclaimed Vaccius, "for it is related that on several occasions at Rome a mule has had a foal." To back up what Vaccius had said, I cited Mago and Dionysius as writing that when mules and mares conceive they bear in the twelfth month.
"Why this is so," said Vaccius, turning to me, "I leave to you who read Aristotle." "A cow should not be served under two years, so that she may have her first calf in the third year: it would be better in the fourth. Most cows bear for ten years, some even more.
I am among those who think that one hundred is enough, but Atticus here, like Lucienus, has one hundred and twenty." So far Vaccius. Of asses
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