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»sed his relictis, ad apum genus revertamur. Gignuntur propagatione, ex 
putredine non omnium, sed boum, ut ex equis vespae, ex asinis fuci, et crab- 
rones ex mulis; quare videntur singula cum putrescunt animalia genus quoddam 
proprium generare.“ 
A somewhat premature generalization! Scaliger’s criticism, - 
quoted by me in Suppl. XI, evidently refers to this passage. 
Census, Cornelius, ,a very celebrated writer on medicine, 
of whose age, origin, or even actual profession, we know but 
little‘. Only one of his numerous works has come down to us, 
»De Medicina“, in eight books. He lived about the beginning of 
? 
the Christian era (W. Smith, Diction.). He is quoted, together 
with Columella on p. 6. 
Cotumenia, L. Junius Moderatus, from Cadix in Spain, lived 
under Tiberius and Claudius. The only work now extant is his 
»De re rusticd® in twelve books. The passage, Book IX, 14, 
quoted by Redi (comp. above, p. 6), reads as follows: 
After explaining what is to be done with hive-bees at different seasons, 
Columella continues : 
»Caeterum hoc eodem tempore (Caniculae) progenerari posse apes juvenco 
perempto, Democritus et Mago, nec minus Virgilius prodiderunt. Mago quidem 
ventribus etiam bubulis idem fieri affirmat. Quam rationem diligentius prosequi 
supervacuum puto, conveniens Celso, qui prudentissime ait, non tanto interitu 
pecus istud amitti, ut sic requirendum sit.“ 
(Translation.) It is about this time of the year (the dog-days) that, ac- 
cording to Democritus and Mago, as well as to Virgil, bees can be produced 
from a slaughtered young bullock. Mago affirms that the paunch of the bullock 
is sufficient for the purpose. I think it unnecessary to go further into the 
matter, agreeing as I do with Celsus, who wisely remarks, that the mortality 
amongst bees is not such as to warrant the experiment. 
J. H. Voss (p. 277) renders the sense of this passage as 
follows: 
»Celsus hatte nur den verniinftigen Einwurf, wie Columella ihn nennt, die 
Kosten der Erzeugung scien zu gross.“ 
Lenz, H. O., Zool. der Griechen und Rémer, Gotha 1856, 
p. 595, has a different version: 
»Columella bemerkt, dass Democritus, Mago und Virgil die genannte Er- 
zeugung der Bienen Iehren, pflichtet jedoch dem Celsus bei, der wohlweislich 
behauptet, die Kunst aus todgeschlagenem Rindvieh Bienen zu machen, bringe 
mehr Schaden als Nutzen.“ 
