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bably the original signification of the term, as from \tju>>, like the 

 Latin cesfuarium : at any rate there is no inaccuracy in the rendering, 

 even though Aristotle be understood to be speaking of " ponds" or 

 " lakes," as the Eeviewer ought to have known. 



The next complaint is, that " the Grreek word IXvcnraffriKd is 

 strangely enough translated '-wTigghng' ;_if we consult _ the treatise 

 de Incessu," it is added, " we find it signifies to crawl like an earth- 

 worm, and expresses the mode of progression of gasteropods, cater- 

 pillars and worms." Not being acquainted \nih the term, I was 

 content to take the meaning given in Liddell and Scott's Lexicon. 

 There should not be any thing to excite surprise in the mind of an 

 ordinary individual, in the fact that I did not know that the Greek 

 word occurs in the Treatise de Incessu, seeing that I made no 

 pretence to any profound acquaintance with all Aristotle's physical 

 works. 



It is worthy of note, that when the Eeviewer mentions other 

 treatises besides the Historia Aiiimalium, he omits to give the refer- 

 ences.* However, I have gone carefully through the de Incessto, 

 and find the Greek word in question mentioned once, viz., in cap. ix. 

 Vol. i. p. 709, Ed. Bekker. Aristotle is speaking of the mode of 

 progression in footless animals ; I give the passage itself in full, — 

 TO. 3' airoca ra /xei' KVfiaivovra irpoepxerai (rovro Ca ^lttux; <TVju/3atV£t* to. 

 fxev yap £7rirJ/e yVQ, nadaTrep o'l ofeiQ, rag Kajx-nraQ Troielrai, ra o £lq to ayio, 

 uiairep al mfxiraL), ?/ Ei KVfiavcnQ Kafnn) kariv' ra F IXvffTrdaei xpwM^J'a» 

 KadciTTsp TO. Ka\ovf^E^'a yrie evrepa Kai foMWai. ravra yap t<S jxiv ijyoviiivio 

 7rpofp)(£rai to ck Xonvhv aG)^a irdv Tvpug tovto (Tvi'dyovtn ical tovtov tov 

 Tpoirov EiQ TUTTov EK TOTTov jU£ra/3dX\oi»<7t. " Now of footloss auimals 

 some proceed by undulations of the body, which may be done in two 

 ways ; for some make their inflexions on the ground like serpents, 

 while others do so in an upward direction like (some) caterpillars ; 

 but the undulation here s])oken of is an inflexion ; others use an 

 ilyspastic mode of progression, like wJiaf are called the entrails of the 

 earth and leeches, — for these animals advance with the anterior part 

 of the body, and draw together all the rest of the body to this part, 

 and in this manner go from place to place." Here then we see that 

 the ill/spastic method of progression is that which is adopted by 

 leeches, and what are called " the entrails of the earth ;" what these 

 latter may denote I have been unable to ascertain ; certain, however, 

 it is that they are distinct from earthworms ; Aristotle couples them 

 with leeches, and says, they adopt a similar mode of progression. 

 "Whence then, I ask with reasonable surj)rise, does the Eeviewer get 

 his earthworms, gasteropods, caterpillars and worms ? The ilyspastic 

 mode of progression is clearly that which is so familiarly known as 

 being characteristic of the HirudinidcB. If my error of rendering 



* The interesting passage in the de Anima (ref. ?) respecting Empedocles and 

 analogous parts, I have been unalile to discover in that Treatise. 



