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The Greeks and Romans don't appear to have kept domestic cats - they used weasels sometimes to keep mice from the house, so they have surprisingly little interest in them. (Apart from how they have sex and how keen female cats are in sex - thank Aristotle for that one). Pliny thinks animals with rough tongues like cats can wear away a man's skin; the closer the animal gets to your blood the more dangerous as you can go mad as a result. He also thinks the liver of the cat (taken in wine) can be a cure for malaria but you have to drink this disgusting concoction at the waning of the moon.