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10. Kampe. 



Aristotle' was well acquainted with the metamorphosis of 

 the butterfly, the larva of which he calls kampe, and he makes 

 particular mention of the caterpillar of the cabbage. 



Theophrastus,"^ in his History of Plants, uses the word 

 Jcampe for an animal which eats the leaves and flowers of all 

 kinds of trees. 



Pliny,^ abridging this passage of Theophrastus, translates 

 kampe by eruca, the caterpillar. 



We have already seen that the word kamj)e occurs three 

 times in the Septuagint (Greek) version of the Bible ; twice in 

 Joel, and once in Amos;™ and in the Latin translation of the 

 same passages in the Vulgate, the word eruca always cor- 

 responds with kampe, although it is by no means certain, as 

 we have already remarked, that these are considered synony- 

 mous with the Hebrew word gaza, of which they are the 

 interpretation. 



St. Chrysostom, in a remarkable passage, speaks of the 

 kampas as having been an object of religious worship in 

 pagan times," and the word is correctly rendered by erucas, 

 caterpillars, in the Latin translation. In the Dialogues of 

 Pope Gregory the Great," mention is made of one Boniface, 

 Bishop of Ferentum, who went into a garden filled with cater- 

 pillars : — " Ingressus portum, magna hunc erucarum multi- 

 tudine invenit esse coopertum." 



Pope Zachary, in translating these Dialogues into Greek, 

 renders erucas by kampes. 



But the following passage of Columella sets the matter 

 completely at restiP — " Animalia quae a nobis appellantur 

 erucce Graece autem KAMFIAI nominantur:" " The animals 

 that we (the Romans) name erucce are called in Greek kampai." 



Palladius and Columella, though writing in Latin, have 



' Aris. de Anim. liv. v. c. 19. ^ Theophrastes, liv. iv. c. 16. 



' Pline, liv. xii. c. 24. °> Joel i. 4 ; Ibid. ii. 25 ; Amos iv. 29. 



■" S. Joannes Chrysostom, Homel. 2, in Acta Apostol.; torn. iv. p. 621,. liv. xiv. 

 edit. Eton, 1612, in fol. 



° S. Gregor. Dialogorum libri, 4, lib. i. cap. 9 ; torn. ii. p. 396, edit, de Paris, 

 1675, in folio. . 



p Columella, lib xi. cap. 3. 



