146-148 White cattle were required for the sacrifices of the Triumphs.
149 alienis mensibus = in months not her own, i.e. in months properly belonging to winter.
150 bis gravidae pecudes = twice the cattle give increase, Conington.
151, 152 saeva leonum semina = the fierce lion-brood.—Mackail.
aconita, a deadly poison—monkshood.
153, 154 neque—anguis = nor with so vast a sweep gather himself into a coil, i.e. the snakes in Italy are not so large as elsewhere.
R. Clitumnus. Compare Pliny’s beautiful letter (viii. 8) describing its source.
* Cf. the Chillingham ‘Wild Cattle.’