[53] Marcus Terentius Varro (B.C. 116–circa B.C. 27), a famous Roman scholar, author of De Re Rustica and for some time director of the public library.—Translator’s Note. [54] Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella (fl. 1st century A.D.), author of a work, De Re Rustica, bearing the same title as Varro’s.—Translator’s Note. [55] A very large, prehistoric Bear (Ursus spelæus) whose remains are common in European caves, including those of England.—Translator’s Note. [56] The modern classification places the Pea- and Haricot-weevils in a separate family, the Bruchidæ, whereas the family of the Curculionidæ includes most of the other, or true, Weevils.—Translator’s Note. [57] 1⁄25 inch.—Translator’s Note. [58] Or, if the reader prefers, the Swell-belly. Gus, in the Provençal dialect, means both ‘guts’ and ‘bigger.’—Translator’s Note. [59] ‘And Thestylis wild thyme and garlic beats For harvest hinds, o’erspent with toil and heats.’— Pastorals, ii., Dryden’s translation. [60] Book i., line 227 et seq.—Author’s Note. [61] ‘Vile vetches would you sow, or lentils lean? The growth of Egypt, or the kidney-bean? Begin when the slow Waggoner descends, Nor cease your sowing till mid-winter ends.’ —Dryden’s translation. [62] The Academician (1842–1905).—Translator’s Note. [63] Annales politiques et littéraires: Les Enfants jugés par leurs Pères. Christmas number, 1901.—Author’s Note. [64] The enclosed piece of waste land on which the author used to study his insects in the wild state. Cf. The Life of the Fly: chap. i.—Translator’s Note. [65] The essays on Minotaurus typhæus will appear in the next volume of the series, to be entitled Mere Beetles.—Translator’s Note. [66] The Life of the Fly: chaps. ii. and iii.—Translators Note. [67] Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (1636–1711), author of L’Art poétique and other poetical, critical and satirical works.—Translator’s Note. [68] ‘That which is well conceived is also clearly stated.’