130 BARON WALKLNAER ON THE 



called ipas attacking the vine, it is necessary to smoke the 

 reeds that are used for props, because by decaying in the 

 ground these produce little worms which crawl up the vine." 



Galien, cited by Aldrovandus, informs us that black mould 

 destroys the ipes. 



In the Dictionary of Suidas p we find the word ipi defined 

 by worm, with the addition that it would be better to say ips* 

 This work gives the same meaning for that word. 



But the name ips, with a little alteration in the form of 

 the word, or another insect with a slightly different name, is 

 mentioned by various authors as being very injurious to the 

 vine. 



In a fragment of Alcman, quoted by Bochart, q it is said, 

 " the speckled ika is the pest of the shoots of the vine." 



The grammarian Ammonius also, in his treatise on Syno- 

 nyms, 1 says, " The ikes are animalcules which eat the shoots 

 of the vine." 



Bochart thinks ips and iks the same words in different 

 dialects. 



Valckenaer, in his Notes on Ammonius, is of the same opi- 

 nion. " Ego verisimilam censeo (says this clever critic) Sam, 

 Bocharti sententiam qui ab Alcman ika, ex dialecto pro ipa 

 positum sagaciter animadvertit et ex idoneis auctoribus loca 

 produxis in quibus, qui in vitibus ?iascuntur vermiculi ipes 

 dicuntur" Valckenaer concludes with Bochart that ips is the 

 most ancient form of the word. 



However, in Hesychius, and an anonymous grammarian 

 cited by M. Boissonade, the two words are distinct, and are 

 used for different insects. 



The Dictionary of Hesychius gives the word iks as the name 

 of an animalcule (theridion) injurious to the vine ; and in the 

 same work the word ips occurs again with this explanation, 

 that it is employed by grammarians to designate an insect 

 which eats horn. 



According to the anonymous grammarian quoted by M. 

 Boissonade in the Notes to his edilio princeps of Herodian, 8 



i' Suid. Lex., ed. de Kust. 1705, in folio, torn. ii. p. 141. 

 •> Boch. Hironicon, torn. ii. p. 213. 



r Am. tit. ii. c. 5, de differentia adfinium vocabulorum, nunc primum edit. 

 ope MSS. Primae edit. Aldinae. Vulgavit Valck. pp. 73, 74. 

 5 Herod. Partit. Lond. 1819, in Svo. p. 58. 



