554 PLnrr's katukal histoet. [BookX. 



though it is equally certain that they do sleep. But we must 

 now pass on to a description of the insects. 



SuMMAET. — ^Eemarkable facts, narratives, and observations, 

 seven hundred and ninety-three. 



EoMAN AT7TH0ES OTOTEB. — ^Mamlius,*' Comelius ValeiianuB,™ 

 the Acta Triumphorum," Umbricius Melior,'" Massurius Sabi- 

 nus," Antistius Labeo,''* Trogus," Cremutius,™ M. Varro," 

 Macer ^mUius,™ Melissus," Mucianus,*" Nepos," Fabius 

 Pictor,*" T. Lucretius, °' Cornelius Celsus,^ Horace, '^ Deculo,*' 

 Hyginus,*' the Sasemse,^ Nigidius,*' Mamilius Sura." 



FoEEiGir AXTTHOES woiBD. — Homer, Phemonoe," Phile- 



" M. Manilius, mentioned in c. 2. Nothing certain is known of him, 

 but bj- some he is supposed to have been the senator and jurisconsult of 

 that name, contemporary with the younger Scipio, The astronomical poem 

 which goes under his name was probably written at a much later period. 



" See end of B. iii. " See end of B. v. 



'* A famous soothsayer, who predicted to Galba, as we learn from 

 Tacitus, the dangers to which he was about to he exposed. He wrote on 

 the science of Divination, as practised by the Etruscans. 



" See end of B. vii. 



" A Eoman legislator, proconsul of Gallia Narbonensis, and long a 

 favourite of Augustus. According to Aulus GelliuS, his works were very 

 numerous. He also wrote a treatise on the Etruscan divination. 



" Trogus Pompeius. See end of B. vii. 



'« See end of B. vii. " See end of B, ii. 



'6 See end of B. ix. " See end of B. vii. 



6» See end of B. ii. 8i gee end of B. ii. 



^ He was the most ancient writer of Roman history in prose. His history, 

 which was written in Greek, is supposed to have commenced with the arrival 

 of JEneas in Italy, and to have come down to his own time. He was sent 

 by the Eomans to consult the oracle at Delphi, after the battle of Cannse. 



'^ The famous poet and writer on the Epicurean philosophy. He was 

 bom B.C. 98, and slew himself B.C. 54. ** See end of B. vii. 



^ Q. Horatius Flaccus, one of the greatest Roman poets. 



*^ Nothing is known of tliis writer ; indeed, the correct reading ia a 

 matter of doubt. 87 gee end of B. iii. 



68 Father and son, who wrote treatises on agriculture, as we learn horn 

 Columella. s' See end of B. vi. 



s" A writer on agriculture, mentioned by Columella. 



SI A priestess of Delphi, said to have been the inventor of hexameter 

 verse. Servius identifies her with the Cumsean Sibyl. Pliny quotes from • 

 her in c. 8, probably from some work on augury attributed to her. A 

 work in MS. entitled " Orneosophium," or " Wisdom of Birds," is attri- 

 buted to Phemonoe. She b said to have been the first to pronounce the 

 celebrated Ti/tudi atavrov, commonly attributed to Thales. 



