The History of the Manners and Customs of Ancient Greece, Volume 2 (of 3)

by James Augustus St. John

[1421]. See Strattis’s Invocation to the Caterpillar. Athen. ii. 79. Theoph. Hist. Plant. vii. 2. 4. 5. 4.

[1422]. Geop. xii. 13. 3. Pallad. ii. 14. 2.

[1423]. Athen. i. 12.

[1424]. Geop. xii. 19. 1, sqq. Pallad. iv. 9. 8.

[1425]. Plin. xix. 23. Pallad. iv. 9. 8.

At qui sub trichila manantem repit ad undam,

Labentemque sequens nimio tenuatur amore,

Candidus, effœtæ tremebundior ubere porcæ.

Colum. x. De Cult. Hortor. 394.

[1426]. Lord Bacon, having noticed this fact, adds the following sage remark: “If you set a stake or prop at a certain distance from it (the vine), it will grow that way, which is far stranger than the other: for that water may work by a sympathy of attraction; but this of the stake seemeth to be a reasonable discourse.” Sylva Sylvarum, 462.