Book 7
2.4
Sunt etiam suapte natura pretio commendabiles pullus atque fuscus, quos praebent in Italia Pollentia, in Baetica Corduba. Nec minus Asia rutilos,quos vocant ἐρυθραίουσ. Sed et alias varietates in hoc pecoris genere docuit usus exprimere. Nam cum in municipium Gaditanum ex vicino Africae miri coloris silvestres ac feri arietes, sicut aliae bestiae, munerariis deportarentur, M. Columella patruus meus acris vir ingenii, atque illustris miles SAac. commcndabilis SAac. lutilos SA1. a Georg. II. 109. b I.e. those which on account of the excellence of their wool are covered with skins to preserve their fleeces (Varro, R.R., II. 2. 19: Horace, Od. II. C. 10). c A town near Venice. d Both these towns were in Cisalpine Gaul, Mutina being the modern Modena. agricola, quosdam mercatus, in agros transtulit, et mansuefactos tectis ovibus admisit.
