150 Rev. F. W. Hope's Observations, Sfc, 



Nations described as Eating Locusts, &;c., with the 

 Ancient Authorities attached to them. 



1. Parthians V id. Pliny, 11, 29; Pliny, lib. 2, ch. 29, lib. 9, c. 29, 35 j 



Plutarch (in Symp.) 



2. iEthiopeans Vid. Pliny, 6, 30 ; Strabo, Leo Africanus, lib. 16, ch. 8. 



3. Acridophagi .. ..Vid. Herodotus, Strabo, Agatharcides, 5, 272 ; Diodorus, 



Bibliot.3, 11. 



4. Syrians Teste Scaliger, contra Cardanum, 639. 



5. Lybians Leone teste in descriptione Africa, Artemidorus. 



6. Greeks Aristophanes, Acham, act 4, scene 7 ; (Plutarch, in Symp.) 



Atheneeus, lib. 4 ; Pliny, 11, 26 ; ^lian. Hist. 13—26. 



7. Hebi-ews Moses, Levit. ch. 11, v. 21, 22, and the Talmudic Tract 



Cholin, ch. 3, fol. 65 ; Heros Nedarum, fol. 40, 42. 



8. Persians .Tavernier. 



9. Chaldeans Tavernier, Itiner. PI. fig. 67. 



10. Nasiraeans Saubeitus, Aclis Erudit. 1694, p. 57. 



11. Sinensis Gonsalvus Oviedus apud Vossum, 1. c. cap. 78 ; Dapper, 



Descript. Africae, page 396. 



12. Arabians Leo Africanus, lib. 9 ; Agatharcides, lib. 5, c, 27. 



13. Nasamones . . . .Eustathius in Dionysium. 



Modern Authorities. 



1. Fez Clenard in Epistolis, 1541. 



2. Jews Origen ; Chrysostora; Jacobus de Vitriaco; Hermolaua 



barbarus in Dioscoride, Beda, Kirstenius, in his Notes of 

 St. Matthew, lib. 9 ; Euthymus in Matthssum, lib. 9. 



3. Arabs Kirstenius, Hieronymus, Scaliger, Russell, /Edmon, Hassel- 



quist, Forskal, Damir. 



4. Lybians Dioscorides, 256 ; Porphyrins, Hieronymus in Jovin, lib. 2, 



chap. 6. 



5. Barbary Solinus. 



6. ^Ethiopians and ) Alvarez, Itiner. /Ethiop. lib. 1, p. 73 ; Ludolphus, JLthiopia, 



Abyssinians. . ) ch. 13, p. 67 ; Lobos' Voyage, p. 86. 



7. Egyptians Russell's Aleppo, p. 26; Forskal. 



8. Mussulmans . . . . Abdallah. 



9. Turks Ludolphus, p. 6. 



10. Chinese Niebhur's Descript. Reg. Sinar. p. 377. If other authorities 



are required I refer the reader to the Physica Sacra, of 

 Scheuchzer, vol. 2, p. Ill, for various other names un- 

 mentioned. 



11. Madagascar .... Ysbrand in Relat. de India Orientali. 



