[182]These are merely freaks of Nature.
[183]Britannicus, the son of Claudius, and Nero, his stepson.
[184]The nephew and son of Tiberius.
[185]Festus says that the “fane of Rediculus was without the Porta Capena; it was so called because Hannibal, when on the march from Capua, turned back (redierit) at that spot, being alarmed at certain portentous visions.”
[186]Albert Magnus says that swallows can be tamed.
[187]The trunk of the gnat, Cuvier says, contains five silken and pointed threads, which together have the effect of a sting.
[188]They respire by orifices in the sides of the body, known to naturalists as stigmata. The whole body, Cuvier says, forms in a measure, a system of lungs.
[189]The various noises made by insects are in reality not the voice, as they are not produced by air passing through a larynx.
[190]They have a nourishing fluid, which is of a white color, and acts in place of blood.
[191]All insects have a brain, a sort of spinal marrow, and nerves; they have no fat except when in the chrysalis state; but they have a fibrous flesh of a whitish color. They have also viscera, trachea, nerves, and a most complicated organization.