easdem vitibus voluerimus consulere, allio trito falces putatoriæ feruntur unguendæ[1]."
Columella having occasion to speak of the destruction caused by the Caterpillar, twice employs the word Campe.
" Nec solum teneras audent erodere frondes
Implicitus conchæ limax, hirsutaque Campe[2]."
And afterwards :
" Non aliter quani decussa pluit arbore nimbus
Vel teretes mali, vel tectæ cortice glandis,
Volvitur ad terram distorto corpore Campe[3]."
It is therefore evident that it is among the Caterpillars, or the larvæ of the Lepidoptera or Butterflies, that we must search for the Kampes, which, according to the Geoponics, are produced in the vine and destroy it.
XI. Phtheir.—This Greek word is known to apply to the parasitic insect peculiar to man, the Louse. We shall have to examine whether Ctesias[4] and the author of the Geoponics have employed this word to signify all sorts of insects injurious to the vine, which include implicitly the Kampes or Caterpillars; or whether they had in view a particular insect, which being small was for that reason considered by cultivators as the Louse of the vine.
XII. Julos or Julus.—Suidas, an author of the ninth or tenth century, says in his Dictionary[5], that the Julos is a worm of the vine; that it has a great number of feet, and is also called Multipede; that it coils itself up, and breeds in moist vessels.
From these few particulars the most learned lexicographers have not hesitated to establish the identity of the Julos with the Ips, Iki, Convolvulus, and other insects mentioned by the ancients as injurious to the vine.
We shall soon see how many errors are accumulated from thus establishing relations for which there is no authority in any text.
No ancient author has mentioned the Julos in connexion with the vine, or as an animal destructive of it.
The Latins have employed the word Julus or Julius in several of the same senses as were given to it by the Greeks; but I am not aware that they have ever employed it to denote a worm or an insect, or any animal whatever.
- ↑ Palladius, in the Scriptores de Re Rustica, Bipontine edit., vol. i. p. 43.
- ↑ Columella, De Cultu Hort., ver. 324. vol.i. p. 410. Bipontine edit, 1787, 8vo.
- ↑ Columella, De Cultu Hort., book x. ver. 366. Gesner in his Dictionary also quotes Sextus Empiricus, t. 14, on the word Campe.
- ↑ Ctesias, Indicorum, chap. xxi. p. 253. edit. Baehr. Frankfort, 1824, 8vo.
- ↑ Suidas, Lexicon, vol. ii. p. 126. Frankfort edit.
