[1054] Coccus tinctorius, used to dye scarlet.
[1055] Sinoub, still a Turkish city of importance.
[1056] A people inhabiting the western parts of the Caucasus.
[1057] This name occurs only in Strabo: of the various conjectures which have been hazarded on the subject, one of the most probable seems to be that we should read Saltigetæ, a people of Bastetania, mentioned by Ptolemy.
[1058] These were evidently rabbits.
[1059] Spain.
[1060] Majorca and Minorca.
[1061] According to Pliny, (lib. viii. c. 55,) this deputation was sent to Augustus to demand of him a military force, apparently for the purpose of assisting the inhabitants in destroying the rabbits. The same writer has brought together a variety of instances in which cities have been abandoned or destroyed through similar causes. Vide lib. viii. c. 29. The inhabitants of Abdera in Thrace were forced to quit their city on account of the rats and frogs, and settled on the frontiers of Macedonia. (Justin. lib. xv. c. 2.)
[1062] Ferrets.
[1063] Pozzuolo.