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LIBER VIII · CAPUT 56

ANIMALS WHICH ARE TAMED IN PART ONLY

ANIMALS WHICH ARE TAMED IN PART ONLY. Complete modern editorial illustration created specifically for this chapter.
ANIMALS WHICH ARE TAMED IN PART ONLY · EDITORIAL PLATE VIII.56 · modern editorial plate
ANIMALS WHICH ARE TAMED IN PART ONLY. Complete modern editorial illustration created specifically for this chapter.

Latine · Mayhoff 1906

hi mansuescunt raro, cum feri dici iure non possint; complura namque sunt nec placida nec fera, sed mediae inter utrumque naturae, ut in volucribus hirundines, apes, in mari delphini.

English · Bostock & Riley 1855–57

Hares are seldom tamed, and yet they cannot properly be called wild animals; indeed, there are many species of them which are neither tame nor wild, but of a sort of intermediate nature; of the same kind there are among the winged animals, swallows and bees, and among the sea animals, the dolphin.