these which the Gentiles used principally to offer in
sacrifice.
  On the approach of winter a sheep gets hungry at
pasture and it roots up the grass insatiably-because it
foresees the severity of the winter before it, and hopes to
stuff itself with green fodder before all herbage shall fail
it under the nipping frost.

VERVEX       the
Wether is so called
either from his
powers (a iiri6us)
because    he  is
stronger than the
other sheep: or else
it is because he is a
man ('vir), i.e. mas-
culine: or else it is
because he   has
maggots  (vermes)
in his noddle. It is
from the itch oc-
casioned  by the
worms that these creatures mutually rush
collide with a great impetus, butting.

together and

A R I E S the Ram perhaps gets his name by aphaeresisl
from Ares, the God of War-and from hence, among
us, the males among the flocks are sometimes called in
Latin 'mares' (Mars). Or else the beast may get its name
 1 The manuscript seems to say: 'Aries vel (or 'Ut') ailotoapeoc i. amarie
vocalus.
It does sometimes become tiresome to have to unravel these readings.

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