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The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 2 (of 6)

Note 1674 — BOOK VIII. THE NATURE OF THE TERRESTRIAL ANIMALS.

John Bostock translation

Probably, there is no foundation for this opinion: it does not appear that any animal, except man, has the faculty of weeping, i. e. of shedding tears, in connection with a peculiar condition of mind and feeling.—B. But query as to the horse. See c. 64 of the present Book, and the Introduction to vol. i. p. xvii.

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