[63] A place in Germany, where Drusus, the brother of Tiberius, gained a victory over the Germans: the locality is unknown.
[64] “Fur.” A variety, probably, of the drone.
[65] So Virgil says—
——“Hæc certamina tanta
Pulveris exigui jactu compressa quiescent.”—Georg. iv. 87.
[66] If it is left in the wound, the insect dies, being torn asunder.
[67] Of course this is fabulous, as the drones are males.
[68] Though belonging to the same class, they are not of degenerate kinds.
[69] The “mule-gnat.”
[70] See Virgil, Georg. B. iv. l. 27.
[71] The reading seems doubtful, and the meaning is probably unknown.