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

[808.] Paus. Hist. of Greece, B. 6, c. 26.

[809.] Aristot. Hist. An., v. 19.

[810.] Pliny, Nat. Hist., xi. 23.

[811.] Ibid., xi. 22.

[812.] Tacitus, Ann., B. 2, c. 33.

[813.] Nat. Hist., xi. 22.

[814.] Cf. Gibbon’s Decl. and Fall of Rom. Em., c. 40.

[815.] Some authors, however, assert that the name was suggested by the resemblance of the Morea to the shape of the mulberry-leaf, a less plausible opinion by far than the former.

[816.] Thuanus, in contradiction to most other writers, makes the manufacture of silk to be introduced into Sicily two hundred years later, by Robert the Wise, King of Sicily and Count of Provence.

[817.] Burgon’s Life of Sir Thomas Gresham, 1839, i. 110, 302.