THE WILD BOAR; WHO WAS THE FIRST TO ESTABLISH PARKS FOR WILD ANIMALS

Latine · Mayhoff 1906

Vivaria eorum ceterarumque silvestrium primus togati generis invenit Fulvius Lippinus; in Tarquiniensi feras pascere instituit, nec diu imitatores defuere L. Lucullus et Q. Hortensius.

Sues ferae semel anno gignunt. maribus in coitu plurima asperitas. tune inter se dimicant indurantes attritu arborum costas lutoque se tergorantes. feminae in partu asperiores, et fere similiter in omni genere bestiarum. apris maribus non nisi anniculis generatio. in India cubi- tales dentium flexus; geminiita ex rostro, totidem a fronte, ceu vituli cornua, exeunt. pilus aereo similis agrestibus, ceteris niger. at in Arabia suillum genus non vivit.

English · Bostock & Riley 1855–57

Fulvius 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, projecting 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 colour of copper, the others are black. No species whatever of the swine is found in Arabia.