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[2] adhibetur aetati tenerae sine vulnere. Nam, ubi iam induruit, melius bimus quam anniculus castratur. Idque facere vere 1vel autumno luna decrescente praecipit, vitulumque ad machinam deligare: deinde prius quam ferrum admoveas, duabus angustis 2 3 4 5 [p. 188] ligneis regulis veluti forcipibus apprchendere testium nervos, quos Graeci κρεμαστῆρας ab eo appellant, quod ex illis genitales partes dependunt. Comprehensos deinde testes ferro reserare, et expressos ita recidere, ut extrema pars eorum adhaerens praedictis nervis
3 fissa S: ipsa AR.
4 vere S: om. AR.
5 angustis S: angustiis Aac. a Herba Santonica according to Pliny (N.H. XXVII. § 28) was a kind of absinthium or wormwood found in the territory of the Santoni in the province of Aquitania: the name of the town of Saintes in the department of Charentes Inférieure is derived from this tribe. b Described in Chapter XIX above.
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