\f1 \fs22 As well as cattle, donkeys, and mules, indispensable to the tilling of fields and to transportation by ca
rt, sheep and pigs were raised. In this connection the Greek historian \b \cf2 \ATXht16 Polybius\b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 (second century bC) speaks of gigantic sheep's cheeses that weighed 1000 librae (327 kg) each and of a multitude of pigs driven along the sh
ores of the Tyrrhenian Sea by a swineherd to the sound of music.\par