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easdem vitihus voluerimus consulere, allio trito falces putatoricB ferun- 

 tur ungiiendcE *." 



Columella having occasion to speak of the destruction caused by the 

 Caterpillar, twice employs the word Cmnpe. 



" Nee solum teneras audent erodere frondes 

 Tmplicitus conchas Hniax, hirsutaque Campe-|-." 



And afterwards : 



" Non aliter quani decussa pluit arbore nimbus 

 Vel tcretes mali, vel tectae eortiee glandis, 

 Volvitur ad terram distorto corpore CampeJ." 



It is therefore evident that it is among the Caterpillars, or the larvae 

 of the Lepidoptera or Butterflies, that we must search for the Kampes, 

 which, according to the Geoponics, are produced in the vine and de- 

 stroy it. 



XI. Phtheir. — This Greek word is known to apply to the parasitic 

 insect peculiar to man, the Louse. We shall have to examine whether 

 Ctesias § and the author of the Geoponics have employed this word to 

 signify all sorts of insects injurious to the vine, which include implicitly 

 the Kampes or Caterpillars ; or whether they had in view a particular 

 insect, which being small was for that reason considered by cultivators 

 as the Louse of the vine. 



XII. Jidos or Jtdtis. — Suidas, an author of the ninth or tenth cen- 

 tury, says in his Dictionarj" ||, that the Jnlos is a worm of the vine ; that 

 it has a great number of feet, and is also called Multipede; that it coils 

 itself up, and breeds in moist vessels. 



From these few particulars the most learned lexicographers have not 

 hesitated to establish the identity of the Joidos with the Ips, Iki, Con- 

 volvulus, and other insects mentioned by the ancients as injurious to the 

 vine. 



We shall soon see how many errors are accumulated from thus esta- 

 blishing relations for which there is no authority in any text. 



No ancient author has mentioned the Jidos in connexion with the 

 vine, or as an animal destructive of it. 



The Latins have employed the word Julus or Julius in several of the 

 same senses as were given to it by the Greeks ; but I am not aware that 

 they have ever employed it to denote a worm or an insect, or any ani- 

 mal whatever. 



• Palladius, in the Scriptores de Re Rustica, Bipontine edit., vol. i. p. 43. 

 t Columella, De Culiu Hort., ver. 324. vol.i. p. 410. Bipontine edit, 1787, 8vo. 

 X Columella, De Cultu Hort., book x. ver. 366. Gesner in his Dictionary 

 also quotes Sextus Empiricus, t. 14, on the word Campe. 



§ Ctesias, Lidicorum, cliap. xxi. p. 253. edit. Baehr. Frankfort, 1824, Svo. 

 II Suidas, Lexicon, vol. ii. p. 126. Frankfort edit. 



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