[1729] Not in Bætica, as Brotero remarks, but in Lusitania, or Portugal; the modern Santarem.—B.
[1730] See Introduction to Vol. III.
[1731] This circumstance is mentioned by Suetonius, c. 20.—B.
[1732] Hardouin observes, that these insects are never met with in mines; but probably this may depend more upon other causes, than upon the vapours which are supposed to proceed from the metals.—B.
[1733] See B. xxxiii. cc. [33], [34].
[1734] See B. xx. c. 81, and B. xxiv. c. 73.
[1735] “Charta.” See B. xxiv. c. 51.
[1736] This, according to Ajasson, is the protoxide, or probably, in some cases, the arseniate of lead.—B.
[1737] From σποδὸς, “ashes.”—B.