BY WHICH THE VINE IS INFESTED, 183 



X. Kampe. — Aristotle* was well acquainted with the metamor- 

 phoses of the Buttei-fly, the larva of which he calls Kampe. He jiar- 

 ticularly mentions that which feeds upon the cabbage. 



Theophrastusf , in his History of Plants, employs the word Kampe 

 for an animal which eats the leaves and flowers of all sorts of trees. 



Pliny +, abridging the passage of Theophrastus alluded to, translates 

 Kampe by Eruca, Caterpillar. 



We have already seen that the word Kampe occurs three times in 

 the translation of the Bible into Greek by the Seventy, twice in Joel, 

 and once in Amos§ ; and that in the Latin translation of the same pas- 

 sages in the Vulgate, the word Eruca is always em})loycd, though, as 

 we have already remarked, we are not certain that either Kampe or 

 Eruca gives the sense of the Hebrew Gaza, for which they are used. 



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

 as having been an object of worship in the times of paganism || ; and this 

 word is with reason rendered Erucas, Caterpillars, in the Latin transla- 

 tion. In the Dialogues of Pope Gregory the Great^ mention is made 

 of Boniface, Bishop of Ferentum, Avho enters a garden in which are a 

 very large number of Caterpillars : " Ingressus hortum, magna hunc 

 Erucarum multitudine invenit esse coojiertum." 



Pope Zachary, translating the same Dialogues into Greek, renders 

 the word Eruca by Kampe. 



But the following passage of Columella leaves no doubt upon the 

 subject**: 



'■'■ Animaiia qua a nobis appellantur Erucae Grace autem k A Mil A I 

 nominantur." " The animals that we (the Romans) call Erucce (Cater- 

 pillars) are named in Greek Kainpai." 



Palladius and Columella, though writing in Latin, always prefer the 

 Greek to the Latin word when they have occasion to mention the ca- 

 terpillar. 



Thus Palladius, giving instructions how to destroy the caterpillars 

 infesting vegetables and the vine, recommends that the stems of the 

 plant producing garlic shoidd bo burnt in the garden, and the pruning- 

 knife employed to dress the vine anointed with the garlic, and says : 

 " Cuinpas fertur eviiicere <pd fusticulos allii sine capitibits per horti 

 omne spatium comhurens, nidorum locis pliiribus cxcitavit. Si contra 



* Aristotle, De Anim., book v. chap. 19. 



f Theophrastus, book iv. chap. 10. 



X Pliny, book xii. chap. 24. 



§ Joel, i. 1 ; ibid. ii. 2.'5 ; Amos, iv. 9. 



II St. Join) (Jhrysostom, llomil. 2. in j-lr.la AposloL, vol. iv. p. G21, book xiv 

 Eton edit. 1612. 



If St. Gregory, Dialogorum TAhri IV., book i. chap. 9. vol. ii. p. 390. Paris 

 edition, lOTr), folio. 



•• Columella, book xi. chap. 3. 



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