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lodorus*® of Tarentum, Praxagoras/^ Plistonicus/*^ Medius/^ 
Dieuches,^^ Cleophantus/^ Philistion/* Asclepiades,^^ Crateuas,^ 
Petronius Diodotus/^ loHas,^^ Erasistratus/^ Diagoras,^^ An- 
dreas,^^ Mnesides,^^ Epicharmus,^^ Damion/* Tlepolemus,*^ Me- 
trodorus/^ Solo/^ Lycus/^ Olympias of Thebes, Philinus/^ 
Petrichus,"^^ Micton,"^^ Glaucias/^ Xenocrates."^* 
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, and 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 fiofi/BvKia^ ''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 "Carbasus" and "Carbasa" are derived from 
the oriental word Oarpas, 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, wiil probably mean "awnings of 
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^' See end of B. xx. 
60 See end of B. xii. 
63 See end of B. xx. 
66 See end of B. xx. 
«9 See end of B. xx. 
72 See end of B. xx. 
TOL. V. 
49 See end of B. xx. 
^2 See end of B. xx. 
55 See end of B. vii. 
See end of B. xii. 
61 See end of B. xx. 
6^ See end of B. xx. 
67 See end of B. xx. 
70 See end of B. xx. 
73 See end of B. xX. 
50 See end of B. xx. 
5'^ See end of B. xx. 
56 See end of B. xx. 
59 See end of B. xi. 
^'^ See end of B. xii. 
65 See end of B. xx. 
6^ See end of B. xii. 
71 See end of B. xxi. 
''^ See end of B, 
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