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passage on the Bugonia, which I quote after Bochart: ,Cum non 
miremur etiam nune ex homine mortuo serpentem fieri, e dorsi me- 
dulla, ut quidem aiunt; et ex bove apem, ex equo vespam, ex asino 
scarabaeum.“ About this passage, comp. above, p. 66, foot-note. 
Onymproporus, Many literary personages of this name are 
mentioned in W. Smith’s Dict. ete. The one quoted by Redi is 
probably the Olympiodorus who is mentioned by Pliny amongst 
»those writers from whom he drew materials for this XIIth 
book*. Redi mentions him among those authors who assert that 
the dead ass produces drones and beetles, but not wasps (com- 
pare p. 24). 
PacuyMERES, Georgius (1242; died after 1310), one of the 
most important among the later Byzantine writers. — Historia 
Byzantina (History of Michael Palaeologus) etc. Pachymeres, 
according to Redi (comp. p. 24), asserts that wasps originate 
,neither from the flesh, nor from the skin“ of animals, but from 
the brain. I have examined his Historia, but have not found 
any statement of that kind. It may perhaps be found in another 
work of his, his Commentaries on Aristotle, which I have not 
compared, and it may refer to the Oestrus ovis, which develops 
- in the brain of sheep. 
PurLEeras, Grammarian and poet from Cos; 8rd cent. B. C.; 
lived. in Egypt; quoted by Antigonus. Bochart quotes the pas- 
sage (translated from the Greek): Taurigenas haec fatus apes 
longinquus adisti. Redi mentions him, Esper. p. 55. 
Puito, called Puno the Jew, to distinguish him from other 
authors of his name. Lived in the first century A. D.. Student 
and imitator of Plato. Bochart has the following passage by 
him (translated into Latin): 
,Apis impurum est animal, quodque ex mortuorum boum pu- 
tredine et corruptione nasci aiunt.* Redi (Hsp. p. 56) quotes his 
,treatise on sacrificed animals‘ (De victimis offerentibus) from 
which the preceding passage is probably borrowed. 
Purto from Tarsus alludes to oxen-born bees ,nella de- 
scrizione del suo famosissimo antidoto*, says Redi (Hsp. p. 55); 
I do not know this author. 
