non-member submission - Re: SC -vacation time

[Michael F. Gunter]

http://www.oswego.edu/~baloglou/quadrupeds/poem.html

Check this out!!!! It's a very cool translation of a 14th century poem, with
a lot of infrmation, in passing, about Byzantine life and food styles. It
describes a bunch of things of interest revolving around the usages to which
animals were put, from food, to leather, to work.

Enjoy ;-)



Phlip

Nolo disputare, volo somniare et contendere, et iterum somniare.

phlip at morganco.net

Philippa Farrour
Caer Frig
Southeastern Ohio

"All things are poisons.  It is simply the dose that distinguishes between a
poison and a remedy." -Paracelsus

"Oats -- a grain which in England sustains the horses, and in
Scotland, the men." -- Johnson

"It was pleasant to me to find that 'oats,' the 'food of horses,' were
so much used as the food of the people in Johnson's own town." --
Boswell

"And where will you find such horses, and such men?" -- Anonymous