[412] See end of B. viii.
[413] See end of B. iii.
[414] See end of B. vii.
[415] See King [Attalus], above.
[416] “Animâ.” The notion that plants are possessed of a soul or spirit, is derived from the Greek philosophers, who attributed to them intellect also, and sense.
[417] Vitruvius mentions the people of Gaul, Hispania, Lusitania, and Aquitania, as living in his day in dwellings covered with oak shingles, or with straw.
[418] See B. vi. c. 20, and B. xi. c. [26].
[419] Desfontaines remarks, that we may still trace vestiges of this custom in the fine trees that grow near church porches, and in church-yards. Of course, his remark will apply to France more particularly.
[420] It is doubtful whether the æsculus of the Romans was the same as the bay-oak, the holm-oak, or the beech. See B. xvi. c. [4].
[421] See further on this subject in Phædrus’s Fables, B. iii. f. 17.