[129] Therefore, says the law, give her offspring to the mother, if not for the whole time, still at all events for the first seven days, to rear on her milk, and render not unprofitable those fountains of milk which nature has bestowed upon her breasts, destroying that second bounty of hers which she has prepared [44] with great prudence, perceiving from a distance by her everlasting and perfect wisdom what will hereafter happen.