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LIBER X · CAPUT 45

ANIMALS THAT CAN LEARN NOTHING

ANIMALS THAT CAN LEARN NOTHING. Complete modern editorial illustration created specifically for this chapter.
ANIMALS THAT CAN LEARN NOTHING · EDITORIAL PLATE X.45 · modern editorial plate
ANIMALS THAT CAN LEARN NOTHING. Complete modern editorial illustration created specifically for this chapter.

Latine · Mayhoff 1906

Non omittendum est, cum de ingeniis disserimus, e volucribus hirundines indociles esse, e terrestribus mures, cum elephanti iussa faciant, leones iugum subeant, in mari vituli totque piscium genera mitescant.

English · Bostock & Riley 1855–57

We ought not to omit, while we are speaking of instincts, that among birds the swallow is quite incapable of being taught, and among land animals the mouse; while on the other hand, the elephant does what it is ordered, the lion submits to the yoke, and the sea-calf and many kinds of fishes are capable of being tamed.