BY WHICH THE VINE IS INFESTED. 183 
X. Kampe—Aristotle* was well acquainted with the metamor- 
phoses of the Butterfly, the larva of which he calls Kampe. He par- 
ticularly mentions that which feeds upon the cabbage. 
Theophrastus+, in his History of Plants, employs. the word Kampe 
for an animal which eats the leaves and flowers of ali sorts of trees. 
Pliny {, abridging the passage of Theophrastus alluded to, translates 
Kampe by Eruca, Caterpillar. 
We have already seen that the word Kampe occurs three times in 
the translation of the Bible into Greek by the Seventy, twice in Joel, 
and once in Amos§ ; and that in the Latin translation of the same pas- 
sages in the Vulgate, the word Eruca is always employed, though, as 
we have already remarked, we are not certain that either Kampe or 
Eruca gives the sense of the Hebrew Gaza, for which they are used. 
St. John Chrysostom, in a remarkable passage, speaks of the Kampes 
as having been an object of worship in the times of paganism ||; and this 
word is with reason rendered Erucas, Caterpillars, in the Latin transla- 
tion. In the Dialogues of Pope Gregory the Great { mention is made 
of Boniface, Bishop of Ferentum, who enters a garden in which are a 
very large number of Caterpillars: “Jngressus hortum, magna hune 
Erucarum multitudine invenit esse coopertum.” 
Pope Zachary, translating the same Dialogues into Greek, renders 
the word Eruca by Kampe. 
But the following passage of Columella leaves no doubt upon the 
subject **: 
“ Animalia que a nobis appellantur Eruce Grace autem. KAMILAI 
nominantur.” “ The animals that we (the Romans) call Hruce (Cater- 
pillars) are named in Greek Kampai.” 
Palladius and Columella, though writing in Latin, always prefer the 
Greek to the Latin word when they have occasion to mention the ca- 
terpillar. 
Thus Palladius, giving instructions how to destroy the caterpillars 
infesting vegetables and the vine, recommends that the stems of the 
plant producing garlic should be burnt in the garden, and the pruning- 
knife employed to dress the vine anointed with the garlic, and says: 
“ Campas fertur evincere qui fusticulos allit sine capitibus per horti 
omne spatium comburens, nidorum locis pluribus excitavit. Si contra 
* Aristotle, De Anim., book v. chap. 19. 
+ Theophrastus, book iv. chap. 16. 
t Pliny, book xii. chap. 24. 
§ Joel, i.4; ibid. ii. 25; Amos, iv. 9. 
|| St. John Chrysostom, Homil. 2. in Acta Apostol., vol. iv. p. 621, book xiv 
Eton edit. 1612. 
4], St. Gregory, Dialogorum Libri IV., book i. chap. 9. vol. ii. p. 396. Paris 
edition, 1675, folio. 
** Columella, book xi. chap. 3. 
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