Curious Facts in the History of Insects; Including Spiders and Scorpions. / A Complete Collection of the Legends, Superstitions, Beliefs, and Ominous Signs Connected with Insects; Together with Their Uses in Medicine, Art, and as Food; and a Summary of Their Remarkable Injuries and Appearances.

by Frank Cowan

[620.] Plutarch, Nat. Quest., 36. Holl. Trans., p. 831.

[621.] Nat. Hist., xxviii. 7. Holl. Trans., p. 308.

[622.] Plutarch, Land and Water Creatures Compared. Holl. Trans., p. 786.

[623.] Georg. iv. 283–7. Dryden’s Trans.

[624.] Swam. Hist. of Ins., Pt. I. p. 226.

[625.] Martin’s Georg. of Virgil, iv. 295, note.

[626.] Dryden’s Virgil, Georg. iv. 417–442. Democritus, said to have been contemporary with Socrates and Hippocrates, the learned Varro, Columella, and Plorentinus, have severally given this same receipt. Vide Owen’s Geoponika, ii. 199.

[627.] Hollings. Chron., i. 384.

[628.] Swam. Hist. of Ins., Pt. I. p. 228.

[629.] N. and Q., ii. 356.