De magnitudine Gallicarum succidiarum Cato scribit his verbis: in Italia Insubres terna atque quaterna milia aulia succidia uere sus usque adeo pinguitudine crescere solet, ut se ipsa stans sustinere non possit neque progredi usquam
With regard to the size of the Gallic flitches, Cato uses this language: The Insubrians in Italy salt down three and four thousand flitches; in spring the sow grows so fat that she cannot stand on her own feet, and cannot take a step;
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