What is the reason that sea-water nourishes not trees? 495. 2. Why do trees and seeds thrive better with rain than with watering? 496. 3. Why do herdsmen place salt before cattle? 497. 4. Why is the water of thunder-showers fitter to water seeds? 498. 5. How comes it to pass that, since there are eight kinds of tastes, we find salt in no kind of fruit? 498, 499. 6. Why, if a man frequently pass along dewy trees, are those limbs that touch the wood seized with leprosy? 500. 7. Why in winter is the sailing of ships more slow in rivers than in the sea? 500. 8. Why, since all other liquors upon moving and stirring about grow cold, does the sea by being tossed in waves grow hot? 501. 9. Why in winter is the saltness of the sea diminished? 501. 10. Why do men pour sea-water into wine, and in defect thereof cast in some Zacynthian earth? 502. 11. What is the cause of sea-sickness? 502. 12. Why does pouring oil on the sea calm its waves? 503. 13. Why do fishermen’s nets decay more in winter than in summer? 503. 14. Why do the Dorians pray for bad making of their hay? 504. 15. Why is rich soil fruitful of wheat, and a thin soil of barley? 504. 16. Why is it said, Sow wheat in clay and barley in dust? 505. 17. Why is the hair of horses, rather than of mares, used for fishing-lines? 505. 18. Why is the sight of a cuttle-fish the sign of a great storm? 505. 19. Why does the polypus change color? 506. 20. Why are the tears of wild boars sweet, and the tears of the hart salt and hurtful? 507. 21. Why do tame sows farrow often, some at one time, and some at other times; and the wild but once a year, and all about the same time? 508. 22. Why are the paws of bears the sweetest and pleasantest food? 509. 23. Why are the tracks of wild beasts found with so much difficulty in spring? 509. 24. Why are their tracks worse scented about the full moon? 509. 25. Why does frost make hunting difficult? 510. 26. Why do brutes, when sick, seek appropriate remedies? 510. 27. Why does must, if the vessel stand in the cold, long continue sweet? 511. 28. Why, of all wild beasts, does not the boar bite the toil, though wolves and foxes do this? 512. 29. Why do we admire natural hot baths, and not cold? 512. 30. Why are vines which are rank of leaves, but otherwise fruitless, said τραγὰν? 513. 31. Why does the vine irrigated with wine, especially its own wine, perish? 513. 32. Why, of all trees, does the palm alone bend upward when a weight is laid on it? 514. 33. Why is pit-water less nutritive than that which comes from springs, or from the clouds? 514. 34. Why is the west wind commonly held to be the swiftest? 515. 35. Why cannot bees abide smoke? 515. 36. Why will bees sooner sting persons who have lately committed whoredom? 516. 37. Why do dogs follow after a stone thrown at them and bite it, letting alone the man who flung it? 516. 38. Why at a certain time of the year do all