Ese recurso retórico denominado detallamiento, es decir perderse en detalles cuando uno no tiene nada que decir, es llevado aquí a extremos ejemplares.   643 Although the beaks and feet of birds are generally clean, earth sometimes adheres to them: in one case I removed sixty-one grains, and in another case twenty-two grains of dry argillaceous earth from the foot of a partridge, and in the earth there was a pebble as large as the seed of a vetch. Here…