HISTORY OF ENTOMOLOGY. t35 
Little is known with regard to the progress of other 
Greek Naturalists in entomological science. It appears 
probable, from an epithet by which Hesiod distinguishes 
the spider — air-jlying*, that the fact of these insects tra- 
versing the air was at that time no secret. Apollodorus, 
as we learn from Pliny b , was the first monographer of 
insects, since he wrote a treatise upon scorpions, and 
described nine species. But like many other Zoo- 
logists, by mistaking analogy for affinity, he has inclu- 
ded a winged insect, probably a Panorpa, amongst his 
scorpions. From the time of Aristotle, however, to 
Pliny, no writer is recorded, with the exception of those 
before alluded to c , that appears to have attended much 
to insects. They are indeed incidentally noticed by Theo- 
phrastus, Dioscorides, Virgil, Ovid, &c, but without 
any material addition to the stock of entomological 
knowledge bequeathed to us by the Stagyrite. Even 
Pliny's vast compendium, as it professed to be, of the 
natural history of the globe, was in many respects little 
more than a compilation from that great philosopher. 
Still, however, though he does not appear to have paid 
much practical attention to insects, — which indeed, con- 
sidering the extent of his views, was scarcely to be ex- 
pected, — yet as a guide to the then state of entomologi- 
cal knowledge, and as an advocate for the study, which 
in the exordium of his eleventh book he has so elo- 
quently and with so much animation defended from the 
misrepresentations of ignorance, Pliny has conferred a 
lasting obligation on the science. The last zoological 
writer of note was TElian, who amongst other animals 
a Gr. A££<n7totwtoj «£«#!/»• Dies. Hll. 13. 
<* Hist. Nat. I. xi. c. 25. c Vol. I. p. 481. Vol. II. p. 121—. 
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