[2392] See B. xiii. c. 49.
[2393] There is probably some truth in these statements as to the utility of butter and honey for infants.
[2394] Ajasson explains this by saying that the hare being eaten by the people of ancient Latium on festival days, with plenteous potations, they erroneously supposed the narcotic effects of the wine to be produced by the flesh of the hare.
[2395] The resemblance of “lepos,” “grace,” to “lepus,” “a hare.” See Martial, B. v. Ep. 29.
[2396] Georg. iii. 280. He alludes to the “hippomanes.”
[2397] Hardouin is probably right in his suggestion that “Dalion” is the correct reading here.
[2398] He has already stated, in c. 44, that a horse will become torpid if it follows in the track of a wolf; for which statement, according to Ajasson, there appears to be some foundation.
[2399] See B. xix. c. 15.
[2400] This is not unlikely; for it has no alarms to make it grow thin.
[2401] See B. viii. c. 41, as to a similar practice on the part of the panther.