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

[1084.] Chambers’ Book of Days, i. 687.

[1085.] Nat. Hist., xx. 12.

[1086.] Cf. Pliny, x. 12; and Moufet’s Theatr. Ins., p. 205.

[1087.] B. i. ch. 1.

[1088.] Hist. of Four-footed Beasts and Serpents, p. 753.—Scorpions are bred “from the carkass of the crocodile, as Antigonus affirms, lib. de mirab. hist. cong. 24. For in Archelaus there is an epigram of a certain Egyptian in these words:

In vos dissolvit morte, et redigit crocodilum,

Natura extinctum (Scorpioli) omniparens.

In English:

The carkass of dead crocodiles is made the feed,

By common nature, whence Scorpions breed.”