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lodorus 48 of Tarentum, Praxagoras, 49 Plistonicus, 50 Medius, 51 

 Dieuches, 52 Cleophantus, 53 Philistion, 54 Asclepiades, 55 Crateuas, 56 

 Petronius Diodotus, 57 loUas, 58 Erasistratus, 59 Diagoras, 60 An- 

 dreas, 61 Mnesides, 62 Epicharmus, 63 Damion, 64 Tlepolemus, 65 Me- 

 trodorus, 66 Solo, 67 Lyciis, 68 Olyrapias 69 of Thebes, Philinus, 70 

 Petrichus, 71 Micton, Glaucias, 73 Xenocrates. 74 



*#* Before quitting the Botanical Books of Pliny, it is a duty both to 

 our author and to the reader, to call attention to the illustrations of a few 

 passages in this work, which will be found in the Textrinum Antiquorum ^ 

 by Dr. James Yates, F.R.S., a book characterized by learning, equally pro- 

 found and extensive, aud the most indefatigable research : it being but re- 

 cently, we are sorry to say, that we have been made acquainted with its 

 valuable contents. 



The following are selected as among the most useful and interesting results 

 of his enquiries. 



B. vi. c. 20 [V. ii. p. 36]. Dr. Yates is of opinion that Pliny has here 

 mistranslated a passage of Aristotle, Hist. Anim. v. 19, and that he has 

 mistaken the word J3o/w/3vKia, <; cocoons," for webs, similar to those of 

 the spider, attached to the leaves of trees. Not understanding the original, 

 he would seem to have given -a distorted account of the simple operation 

 of winding the threads from off the cocoons of the silkworm upon bobbins, 

 by the hands of females ; the threads upon which bobbins would be after- 

 wards unwound for the manufacture of silken fabrics. See Notes 8 and 9 

 on the passage in question ; also B. xi. c. 26. 



B. viii. c. 74 [V. ii. p. 336]. For the word " Sororiculata," Dr. Yates 

 proposes to read " Soriculata," and he suggests that the cloth thus called 

 may have been a velvet or plush, which received its name from its resem- 

 blance to the coat of the field-mouse, "sorex," the diminutive of which, 

 would be " soricula." 



B. xix. c. 2 [V. iv. p. 133] and c. 6 [p. 138]. Dr. Yates expresses it 

 as his opinion that the words li Carbasus" and " Carbasa" are derived from 

 the oriental word Carpas, signifying "cotton," and thinks that Pliny, in 

 B. xix. c. 2, may have used the word by Catachresis, as meaning linen, in 

 the same manner as the Latin poets repeatedly use the word " carbasa," 

 as signifying various kinds of woven textures. If this view be correct, 

 the word "Carbasina" in B. xix. c. 6, will probably mean " awnings of 



