BY WHICH THE VINE IS INFESTED. 185 



Aristotle speaks of the Julios in his History of Animals*; but all the 

 information which he gives us is, that it is an insect without wings, like 

 the Scolopendra. 



Speaking of animals in general, Aristotle distinguishes those which 

 have only four feet from those with a larger number f, and among the 

 latter he names the Scolopendra and the Bee. It is evident that Aristotle 

 names these two examples as being the extreme limits of the class; one 

 animal having but six feet, only two more than the animals of his first 

 division, or quadrupeds, and the other having a much larger number : 

 one of Aristotle's commentators however, forming his judgement in a si- 

 milar manner to the lexicographers, makes a Wasjj of the Scolopendra. 

 An insect without wings a Wasp I 



Aristotle mentions the marine Scolopendra:j:, a different animal, that 

 lives in the sea; he describes it, and says that it is similar to the terre- 

 strial Scolopendra, but of a deeper red colour; that it has a larger num- 

 ber of feet, and those more slender. He remarks upon the terrestrial 

 Scolopendra §, that if it be divided into several parts, each part has a 

 progressive movement. 



Pliny II, translating this passage of Aristotle upon the marine Scolo- 

 pendra, says that it resembles an insect of the earth named Centipede ; 

 and in another part of his work he thus defines the Centipede f: "The 

 Millipede, which is also named Centipede and Midtipede, is a kind of 

 worm of tlie earth, which crawls upon all its feet, describing an arch, 

 and coils itself up on the sligiitest toucli. The Greclis call it Oniscos, 

 and some of them Ti/los." Further on he says again : "The species of 

 Scolopendra which moves without sinuosities, and is named by the 

 Greeks Seps, and by others Scolopendra, is more venomous." 



"Millipeda, ab oliis centipec/o aut multipeda dicta, animal e vermibus 

 terra; pilosum, tnu/tis pedibus arcuatim repens, tactuque contrahens se : 



Oniscon Grceci vacant, cfZ« Tylon Ilium (centipedeni) autem qucB 



non arcuatur Sepa Greed vacant, edit Scolopendram minoiem perni- 

 ciosamque.'' 



I may here remark, that in this passage Pliny** confounds the Julios 

 with another species of Millipede, to which Aristotle gives the name of 

 the polypodous Ass, [Asellus,] ovos 6 ttoXuttos ; and Pliny afterwards 

 appears to give the names of Seps and Scolopendra to the Oniscos, 



* Arist., Hint. Amm., book iv. chap. 1 ; vol. i. p. 129 of the Greek text, and 

 vol. ii. p. 126 of the Latin translation, Schneider's edition; vol. i. p. 171 of the 

 translation of Le Cainus. 



t Arist., book i. chap. 5. vol, ii. p. 16 of Le Canius's translation. 



X Arist., book ii. chap. 4. § Ibid., book iv. chap. 7. 



II Pliny, lIlnL Nat., book ix. chap. 43. 



^ Ib'iil., book xxix. chap. G. vol. x. p. 128. 



•• I'liTiy, llisl. Nal., book xxix. cli.ip.;59. vol. viii.p. 27:5. Arisl., Hiil. Jnii/i., 

 vol. v. chap. 25. (vii/(/d 31); SciiligLM-, 120. vol. ii. p. 221. Schneider's edition. 



