. The wild white cattle of Great Britain. An account of their origin, history, and present state. le in the Georgics Virgil indicates asplainly the value of the celebrated white herds ofClitumnus for sacrifices to the gods, and for the Romantriumphs. Hinc albi, Clitumne, greges, et maxima taurusVictima, ssepe, tuo perfuti flumine sacro,Romanos ad templa Deum duxere triumphos. Even the bull among the signs of the zodiac is de-scribed by the same poet as of the favoured and honouredcolour, white, with gilded Candidus auratis aperit cum cornibus annumTaurus. But the great demand caused a
. The wild white cattle of Great Britain. An account of their origin, history, and present state. le in the Georgics Virgil indicates asplainly the value of the celebrated white herds ofClitumnus for sacrifices to the gods, and for the Romantriumphs. Hinc albi, Clitumne, greges, et maxima taurusVictima, ssepe, tuo perfuti flumine sacro,Romanos ad templa Deum duxere triumphos. Even the bull among the signs of the zodiac is de-scribed by the same poet as of the favoured and honouredcolour, white, with gilded Candidus auratis aperit cum cornibus annumTaurus. But the great demand caused a scarcity, and Italywas unable to supply with white cattle to the extentrequired for sacrificial and other purposes, a city soopulent, so all-powerful, and so populous as ancientRome. Importation had to be resorted to, and the coun-tries to which the Eomans went to obtain these whitecattle were Epirus, Thrace, and the neighbourhood ofthe Black Sea—the native country of the Urus, the verylocalities in which Herodotus had described the wildbull as so abundant, and where Philip of Macedonia had. ROMAN IMPORTS OF WHITE CATTLE. 23 slain him. In these countries, Yarro tells us—andthe circumstance is remarkable—there were few of any-colour but white; and these, too, like the Italian whitecattle, were the largest and the best, and must havebeen of the Urus type. The white cattle of Epiruswere better than any others in Italy, as well as Greece,and more suitable for divine rites, on account of thewildwhitecattleo1879stor
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