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perdices spina et frutice sic muniunt receptaculum, ut contra feram abunde vallentur. ovis stragulum molle pulvere contumulant nec in quo loco peperere incubant: ne cui frequentior conversatio suspecta sit, transferunt alio. illae quidem et maritos suos fallunt, quoniam intemperantia libidinis frangunt earum ova, ne incubando detineantur. tunc inter se dimicant mares desiderio feminarum; victum
aiunt venerem pati. id quidem et coturnices trogus et gallinaceos aliquando, perdices vero a domitis feros et novos aut victos iniri promiscue. capiuntur quoque pugnacitate eiusdem libidinis, contra aucupis inlicem exeunte in proelium duce totius gregis. capto eo procedit alter ac subinde singuli. rursus circa conceptum feminae capiuntur contra aucupum feminam exeuntes, ut rixando abigant eam. nec in alio animali par opus libidinis. si contra mares steterint, feminae aura ab iis flante praegnantes fiunt, hiantes autem exerta lingua per id tempus aestuant. concipiunt et supervolantium adflatu, saepe voce tantum audita masculi, adeoque vincit libido etiam fetus caritatem, ut illa furtim et in occulto incubans, cum sensit feminam aucupis accedentem ad marem, recanat revocetque et ultro praebeat se libidini. rabie quidem tanta feruntur, ut in capite aucupantium saepe caecae motu sedeant. si ad nidum is coepit accedere, procurrit ad pedes eius feta, praegravem aut delumbem sese simulans, subitoque in procursu aut brevi aliquo volatu cadit, ut fracta ala aut pedibus, at procurrit iterum iamiam prehensurum effugiens spemque frustrans, donec in diversum abducat a nidis. eadem in pavore, libera ac
materna vacans cura, in sulco resupina glaeba se terrae pedibus adprehensa operit. perdicum vita et ad sedecim annos durare existimatur.
Naturalis Historia. Pliny the Elder. Karl Friedrich Theodor Mayhoff. Lipsiae. Teubner. 1906.
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