Abraham. And the animals are led so to pair that they may
be able to breed well.

Fine pictures of oxen, horses, sheep, and other animals are
placed before them. They do not turn out horses with mares
to feed, but at the proper time they bring them together in an
enclosure of the stables in their fields. And this is done when
they observe that the constellation Archer is in favorable con-
junction with Mars and Jupiter. For the oxen they observe
the Bull, for the sheep the Ram, and so on in accordance with
art. Under the Pleiades they keep a drove of hens and ducks
and geese, which are driven out by the women to feed near the
city. The women only do this when it is a pleasure to them.
There are also places enclosed, where they make cheese, butter,
and milk-food. They also keep capons, fruit, and other things,
and for all these matters there is a book which they call the
Bucolics. They have an abundance of all things, since every-
one likes to be industrious, their labors being slight and profita-
ble. They are docile, and that one among them who is head
of the rest in duties of this kind they call king. For they say
that this is the proper name of the leaders, and it does not be-
long to ignorant persons. It is wonderful to see how men and
women march together collectively, and always in obedience
to the voice of the king. Nor do they regard him with loath-
ing as we do, for they know that although he is greater than
themselves, he is for all that their father and brother. They
keep groves and woods for wild animals, and they often hunt.

The science of navigation is considered very dignified by
them, and they possess rafts and triremes, which go over the