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XdyiovTis yi-üiaafjaiv dgaïfjaiv fiiXav vStog 

 a*QOV , igtv/ó/ifvoi qiópov atftazoi iv Si rt dv/xèf 

 OTTi&iaiv aTQo/iós iari y niqtaTiviTai 5i rt yaaiijQ» 



uit/xoi noi.ioi alio loco nominantur (I). Ingens 

 luporum numerus in Graecia antiquissimis tempo- 

 ribus fuisse videtur, quod inter alios hoc loco Pid" 

 TABcai abuude probalur: dgyiuXov 51 rolg 'u4.&7i- 

 Pttiois t6 noXiiitX» ToTs i.t/xoii , piXrloya vijtiïv rj 

 yió}QXitv fiüoav ï^ovai (2). Apollo quoque ab 

 eorum destructione kj/xiioi et XvxoxTÓpot voca- 

 batur (3). 



Mi^iaati, x69ovQOi. 



Pulcerrimam apium volitantium descriptioaem hic 

 locus HoMEBi praebet (4) : 



riuri t&vict ilai utliaadwv dSiróaov , 

 ntTQTjg ix yXacpvQrjg alil vtou dQfftixiv&tav , 

 poTQvdótf (5) Si nixovTtti tji' avd'tat» tlaqtvo'atv 

 ai itiv r' tvda itkii ninoTijaTat , at Si ri i'v&u' 



iu media arbore babitant : 



(1) Hymk. III. 223. 

 (-2) In Sohne, p. 91. ' 



(3) Cf. P. V, LiMBUHG BRorwEK, Hist.delaciviliiation 

 moraie et religiciuc des Grecs, T. Y. 269, Ü70. 



(4) II. II. 87seqq. 



(5) Cf. ViRo. G£oao. IV. 658. 



