[3138] An insect. See B. xi. c. 42, if, indeed, this is the same that is there mentioned, which is somewhat doubtful.
[3139] It is not known what bird is meant: perhaps the titmouse.
[3140] A kind of hawk or falcon.
[3141] Species unknown.
[3142] Probably the spring wag-tail.
[3143] In B. viii. c. 22.
[3144] Aristotle, Hist. Anim. B. iv. c. 10, maintains the contrary. But in B. vii. he asserts that infants do dream.
[3145] See Lucretius, B. iv. l. 914, et seq.
[3146] M. Manilius, mentioned in c. 2. Nothing certain is known of him, but by some he is supposed to have been the senator and jurisconsult of that name, contemporary with the younger Scipio. The astronomical poem which goes under his name was probably written at a much later period.
[3147] See end of B. iii.