BY WHICH THE VINE IS INFESTED. lite 
fested by the Jps; this occurs in places exposed to the winds, where 
there is a free current of air, and no excess of humidity.” 
In the Geoponics* it is said, “that to prevent the little worms named 
Zpas from attacking the vines, the reeds used for the vine-props should 
be smoked, because the reeds decomposing in the earth engender little 
worms, which will otherwise ascend upon the vine.” 
Galien, cited by Aldrovandus, says that the black earth kills the Jpes. 
In the Dictionary of Suidas+ the word Jpi is defined by Worm; but it 
is remarked that Jps is a better expression. That work, however, does 
not furnish any other information upon the word Jps. 
But the name Jps in a form slightly altered, or another insect under 
a name differing but little from that, is mentioned by several authors as 
being very hurtful to the vine. 
In a fragment of Aleman quoted by Bochartt{, it is said that “the va- 
riegated Jka is the scourge of the young shoots of the vine.” 
The grammarian Ammonius in his Treatise upon Synonyms §, says 
also, “the Zkes are animalcula which destroy the buds of the vine.” 
Bochart thinks that Jps and Jks are but one word, according to two 
different dialects. 
Valckenaer in his notes upon Ammonius is of the same opinion: 
Ego verisimilam censeo (says this accomplished critic,) Sam. Bocharti 
sententiam qui ab Aleman Ika, ex dialecto pro Ipa positum sagaciter ant- 
madvertit, et ex idoneis auctoribus loca produxit in quibus, qui in vitibus 
nascuntur vermicult Ipes dicuntur.’ Valckenaer concludes with Bo- 
chart that Jps is the most ancient form of the word. 
However in Hesychius, and in another grammarian quoted by 
M. Boissonade, these two words are distinguished from each other and 
applied to two different insects. 
In Hesychius’s Dictionary we find Zks as the name of an animalculum 
(Theridion) which infests the vine; and in the same work Jps has this 
explanation, that this word is employed by grammarians to denote an 
insect which preys upon horn. 
The anonymous grammarian cited by M. Boissonade in his notes to 
his edition of Herodian ||, enumerating the various name sattributed to 
the different species of worms or larve, according to the substances in 
which they lodge, or which they destroy, mentions Zks as the worm of 
the vine, and Jps as that of meat and horn. 
Have these two species of insects been accurately distinguished from 
each other, and the habit acquired of expressing them by different 
* Geoponic., edit. Niklas, chap. liii. vers. 423. 
+ Suidas, Lexicon, edit. of Kuster, 1705, folio, vol. ii. p. 141. 
t Bocharti Hieroxoicon, vol. ii. p. 213. 
§ Ammonius, tit. 2, chap. v. De Differentia adfinium Vocabulorum, nunc pri- 
mum editum ope MSS. prime edit. Aldine. Vulgavit Valckenaer, pp. 73, 74. 
|| Herodiani Partitiones, Lond. 1819, 80, p. 58. 
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