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Democritus, quoted by Columella together with Mago 
(see ConumELLA), is not the philosopher of that name. Voss 
(p. 280) calls him the false Democritus. I do not find any men- 
tion of him either in W. Smith, Diction., or in Jicher’s Ge- 
lehrtenlexicon. 
FrLorentinus. ,A Byzantine writer of uncertain age, but 
who lived in, or before, the tenth century A. D.“ (W. Smith, 
Diction. etc.) About him comp. the List of Authorities, under 
Creoponica, 
Horus (whom Redi calls ,Oro*) I find in W. Smith, Dic- 
tionary etc. under Horapollo: ,Under the name of Horapollo 
(or as some erroneously call him Horus) there is still extant 
a work in two books on hieroglyphics etc.“ He lived about 
the 5th century A. D.. Redi says (comp. above, p. 24) ,Horus, in 
the 23rd Chapter of the second book on hieroglyphics speaks 
of wasps, issuing from the flesh of crocodiles etc.“ W. Smith’s 
Dict. etc. says: ,The second book is inferior to the first, and 
is probably disfigured by later interpolations.‘ 
Lanpo, Hortensius, a physician in the 16th century in Milan, 
wrote a Dialogue against Erasmus, under the pseudonym of ,,Phila- 
lethes utopiensis*, and different other works on various subjects: 
Commentario delle pitt notabili et monstruose cose d'Italia; Para- 
dossi; Sermoni funerali delle bestie. A recent work about him 
by Irineo Sanesi, appeared under the title: ,Il cinquecentista 
Ortensio Lando (Pistoja 1893, Fratelli Bracalli). — According 
to Redi (comp. p. 24), Lando contended that ,hornets originate 
from the brain of asses.“ 
Maco, an old author on Agriculture, who lived in Carthage, 
was much esteemed, even by the Romans after the destruction 
of Carthage (comp. W. Smith, Dict.). Comp. above, ConuMELLA, 
who quotes him. 
Movuret, Thomas, was a contemporary of Queen Elisabeth, 
and died without publishing his work. ,It fell into the hands 
of Sir Theod. Mayerne, Baron d’Aubone, one of the court phy- 
sicians in the time of Charles I, who, at length, published it, 
