ABSTRACT
ALthough this Beaft have all things in common with the Ram aforefaid, fo r he is a male-fheep, and in nature difFereth not from him, but only by the art of man, I might very well have confounded and conjoyned his ftory with the precedent: but feeing that all Nations do diftinguifh him f rom the Ram, becaufe of one property or d e f e ä of him, for that he is not fit for generation,I will follow the ftream, and not ftrive againft my Authors , nor fwarve from their method-Therefore in Latine it is call'd Vervex qua ft verja natura,for tha t his natural feed is changed and turned in him,for his ftones are taken away, and fo he remaineth libbed and gelded, being an Eunuch among Beafts. The Grecians call him Krion lomian, that is, a gelded Ram,for they have not one word to exprefs him. The Latines do alfo call him Se&arius; and Feftus rendreth this reafon thereof, §htia eum fequantur cgni, becaufe the little Lambs love his company andfollow h i m : and indeed by reafon of his unaptnefs co generation, the Ewes forfake his company, and the Rams cannot endure him, therefore in ftead of o ther he affociateth himfelf with the Lambs. In fome parts of Germany they call him Frifchling^ and alfo Hammel, which word feemeth to be derived f rom the Arabian word Lefan Alhamel, a Rams tongue. The Italians call him Caftrone, Caftrato* and Montone; thc French Mouton; and the It/yrkns, Bcram.
