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The names of worms, — < tkvAvZ , evAal, eA/utvc, in Greek, and 
vermes in Latin, — were employed by the ancients to designate 
certain animals, which to a certain degree they suited ; with 
much more reference, however, to the elongated form of their 
body than to the softness of their composition. But, as we have 
seen, the Greeks had three words for these beings, each of which 
had its peculiar signification. From what Aristotle tells us 
of his scolex , — a word, the root of which is indubitably scolios , 
which means tortuous , — it is evident that it applied to all the 
animals which exhibited the form of the common worm, or 
rather, perhaps, whose movements were tortuous, whatever 
might be the nature of the change which they were subse- 
quently to undergo. It would seem, however, that it was 
more especially applied to the first degree of development in 
insects, to the state in which they appear on issuing from the 
egg of the parent. Aristotle certainly extends its application 
no further than to insects. 
Such, however, is not the case with iElian : in two places of 
his work on the nature of animals, where this expression 
occurs, he evidently intends the lumbrici ; in a third, it is 
probable that he alludes to the caterpillar of the cabbage- 
butterfly; and in a fourth, he thus designates, after Ctesias, 
some fabulous animal, although he states it to belong to the 
genus of those which are nourished and engendered in wood. 
Athenmus employs the word Scolezia to designate the small 
worms which live in the vulva of the sh e-mule. 
The term Eulai appears to have been also employed to 
designate the form under which some insects exist, for a 
greater or less period of time, since we find it applied to ani- 
mals which inhabit putrid flesh, and also wounds and ulcers. 
Its extension, therefore, w T as not very great. -dSlian likewise 
employs it to designate what in all probability was a larva, 
when he tells us that in India the peasants remove the land 
