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Notices on some of the authors whose works contain mentions of the 
Bugonia, and who have been quoted by Redi, as well as, in the present 
publication, with references to Redi. 
Agriianus, Claudius, lived in Rome at the time of Helio- 
gabalus; his ,Historia animalium‘ is written in Greek. Passages 
from this work are quoted on p. 1 and 25. 
Anticonus, called Carystius, from his birth-place Carystus. 
»Antigonus is supposed by some to have lived in the reign of Ptolemaeus 
Philadelphus (809—247 B. C.), and by others in that of his son and successor, 
Kvergetes. Respecting his life nothing is known; but we possess by him a work 
called: ,historion paradoxon synagoge“ (Historiae Mirabiles) which consists for 
the most part of extracts from the ,Auscultationes* attributed to Aristotle, and 
from similar works of Callimachus, Timaeus and others, which are now lost. It 
is only the circumstance that he has thus preserved extracts from other and 
better works, that gives any value to this compilation of strange stories, which 
is evidently made without skill or judgment.“ (Wm. Smith, Dict. etc. sub voce 
Antigonus.) His passages about the Bugonia are quoted on p. 7, 21 and 24. 
ArcHEeLAus. A greek poet, about whom very little is known 
comp. W. Smith, Dict. etc. sub voce <Archelaus, Vol. 1, p. 264: 
» Westerman has shown that Archelaus in all probability flou- 
rished under Ptolemy Philadelphus (8309—247 B. C.), to whom, 
according to Antigonus Carystius, he narrated wonderful stories 
(paradoxa) in epigrams.* Georges, Latin-German Dictionary, under 
Bugonia refers to Archelaus as author of a work on the Bu- 
gonia, and quotes Varro, de Re Rustica I, 5, 5. This pas- 
sage in Varro (evidently a corrupt one) speaks of the ,author 
of the Bugonia*, without naming him (comp. p. 21 foot-note). 
Carpanus, Hieronymus (1501—1576), in Pavia. De subtili- 
tate libri XXI. 1550. In the Heidelberg University-Library I 
found a later edition, published in Bale, in which, in book IX, 
entitled: ,de animalibus quae ex putredine generantur*, I found 
the following passage: 
