[2242] It is a timid animal, but Pliny’s authorities have exaggerated its timidity.
[2243] This change of colour is in reality owing to change of locality.
[2244] A. Gellius tells the same story, B. x. c. 12.
[2245] And therefore harmless.
[2246] See B. xxii. c. 21.
[2247] See B. viii. c. 51. Flies and gnats are, in reality, its food.
[2248] One of the few pieces of wit in which Pliny is found to indulge.
[2249] See B. viii. c. 38. Probably the Lacerta ouaran of Cuvier.
[2250] See B. xxvi. c. 62.
[2251] In B. viii. c. 40.