138 BARON WALKENAER ON THE 



12. Julos, or Julus. 



Suidas, an author of the ninth or tenth century, says in 

 his Dictionary," that jidos is the worm of the vine ; that it has 

 many feet ; and is also called raultipede, and that it rolls up 

 and breeds in moist earth. 



On this sole authority, the most learned lexicographers 

 have not hesitated to make julos synonymous with ips, iki, 

 and convolvulus, and every other insect mentioned in ancient 

 writers as injurious to the vine. We shall soon have an 

 opportunity of seeing what a number of errors this arrange- 

 ment has caused, for which no authority can be found in 

 any ancient manuscript. No ancient author has made mention 

 of julos in connexion with the vine, or as injurious to it. 

 The Romans employed the word julus, or Julius, in many 

 instances, with the same meanings as the Greeks ; but never, 

 as far as I know, applied the name to a worm, or an insect, 

 or, indeed, to any animal. 



Aristotle, in his History of Animals,'^ mentions the juUos ; 

 but all that he says about it is, that it is an insect without 

 wings, like the scolopendra. In speaking of animals in gene- 

 ral, Aristotle distinguishes those with four legs from those that 

 have a greater number ;y and he includes the scolopendra and 

 the bee in the latter division. It is easy to see that Aristotle 

 intended by these two examples to give the two extremes ; one, 

 an animal with six legs, two more than quadrupeds possess, 

 the other, an animal with a much greater number. However, 

 a scholiast on Aristotle, forming, like the dictionary-makers, 

 his opinion from the connexion, makes a wasp of this 

 scolopendra — (an insect without wings a wasp !) Aristotle 

 makes mention of the marine scolopendra,^ an animal differing 

 from the one above alluded to, which lives in the sea. He 

 gives a description of it, and tells us it is like the land scolo- 

 pendra, but redder; that its legs are slenderer and more 



" Suidas, Lexicon, torn. ii. p. 126, edit. Francof. 



* Arist. Hist. Anim. lib. iv. c. 1 ; torn. i. p. 129, du texte grecque ; et torn, ii, 

 p. 126, de la traduction latine dans I'ed. de Schneider; torn. i. p. 171, de la 

 traduction de Le Camus. 



'' Arist. liv. i. c. 5 ; torn. ii. p. 16, de la traduction dc Lccamus. 



^ Arist. liv. ii. c. 4. 



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