Note 2266 — BOOK XXVIII. REMEDIES DERIVED FROM LIVING CREATURES. (continued 2)
John Bostock translation
In this passage also it is generally supposed that he refers to the nomadic life of barbarous nations, in which multitudes of sheep and cattle constituted the chief wealth. It is, however, not improbable that he means to say that among the Romans it was only the wealthy who could afford to use it.