[1023]. Id. iv. 1. 2.
[1024]. See a curious figure of the axe, Mus. Chiaramont, pl. 21. Of the time of fruit-bearing in forest trees, see Theoph. Hist. Plant, iii. 4. 4. The same naturalist remarks, that the ilex, in Arcadia, was perpetually covered with acorns, the old ones not falling off till the new ones appeared. The yew and the pine blossom, he observes, a little before midsummer, and the bright yellow flowers of the latter, are extremely beautiful in form. Ib.
[1025]. Geopon. i. 6. 4. iii. 1. 2. iii. 10. 4. iii. 15. 3. Theoph. Hist. Plant. v. 1. 2.
[1026]. Theoph. Hist. Plant. v. 2. 4.
[1027]. Lucian. Jup. Confut. § 11, who elsewhere commemorates the practice of carpenters, who shut one eye that they may see the better. Icaromenip. § 14.
[1028]. Theoph. Hist. Plant. v. 4. 7.
[1029]. Id. v. 6. 4.
[1030]. Aul. Gell. Noct. Apt. xv. 1.
[1031]. Auger-handles and small mallets were made of oleaster, box, elm, and ash; large mallets of pine wood. Theoph. Hist. Plant. v. 7. 8.
[1032]. Schol. Aristoph. Nub. 179.