The historie of the vvorld: commonly called, The naturall historie of C. Plinius Secundus. Translated into English by Philemon Holland Doctor of Physicke. The first [-second] tome

¶ IN THE ELEVENTH BOOKE ARE CONTAI∣ned the stories and natures of small creatures and such as creepe on the ground. (Book 11)

• ...Chap.
• 1. Of Insects in generall.
• 2. The naturall industrie of those Insects.
• 3. Whether Insects doe breath, and whether they haue bloudor no.
• 4. The matter & substance of the Insects body.
• 5. Of Bees.
• 6. The government and order which Bees keep by instinct of Nature.
• ...

• 7. Diuers operations of the Bees, & the tearms thereto belonging.
• 8. Of what floures Bees do make their cellars, combes, and other workes.
• 9. What persons tooke a great loue to Bees, and delighted to nourish them.
• 10. The manner of Bees when they be at their businesse.
• 11. Of Drones.
• 12. The nature of Honey.
• 13. Which is the best Honey.
• 14. The seuerall and particular kinds of Hony in diuerse places.
• 15. The markes and tokens of good Honey.
• 16. Of a third kind of Honey, and how a man should know good Bees.
• 17. The regiment and policie that Bees ob∣serue.
• 18. Diuerse sorts of Bees, and what things be hurtfull to Bees.
• 19. The diseases incident to Bees.
• 20. How to keepe the cast of Bees when they swarme, that they flie not away, also how to recover Bees, in case their breed and race be lost.
• 21. Of Wespes and Hornets.
• 22. Of silke flies, their wormes and Iackes cal∣led Bombylis and Necydalus, and who first deuised silke-cloth.
• 23. Of the silke-worme in the Island Choos.
• 24. Of the Spiders and their generation.
• 25. Of Scorpions.
• 26. Of Stellions and Grashoppers.
• 27. In what countries there bee no Grashop∣pers, and where they sing not.
• 28. The wings of Insects, of Beetles and their kinds.
• 29. Of Locusts.
• 30. Of Ants or Pismires in Italie.
• 31. Of Indian Ants or Emmets.
• 32. The diuerse sorts of Insects.
• 33. Of certaine creatures breeding of wood, and liuing of wood.
• 34. Of a certain creature that hath no passage to void excrements.
• 35. Of Moths and Gnats.
• 36. Of flies liuing in the fire, named Pyrales or Pyraustae.
• 37. A discourse Anatomicall of all parts and members of the bodie.
• 38. Of Bloud, also in what creatures bloud wil soonest clutter and congeale, and whose wil not at all. What creatures haue the grossest and heauiest bloud, and which the finest and thinnest: and lastly who haue no bloud at all.
• 39. Whether the soveraignetie, and excellen∣cie of sence consisteth in bloud. Of the skin and hide, of the haires and dugs of liuing creatures.
• 40. What creatures haue notable dugs or teats aboue the rest.
• 41. Of Milke, and what milke will make no cheese.
• 42. Diuerse kinds of Cheese.
• 43. How the lims and members of mans body differeth from other creatures.
• 44. The resemblance that Apes haue to vs.
• 45. Of Nailes.
• 46. Of Houfes.
• 47. Of birds feet and their clawes.
• 48. Of Insects feet from two to an hundred.
• 49 Of Dwarfes in each kind, and the genitall parts.
• 50. Of Tailes.
• 51. Of Voices.
• 52. Of superfluous members of the bodie. The sayings of Aristotle as touching long life.
• 53. Of the wind & breath that living creatures take. What things if they be tasted be ve∣nomous and deadly. The food of man, as well for meat as drinke. What causes they be that hinder digestion.
• 54. How to encrease or diminish the corpulen∣cie of the bodie, and what things with tast onely, will allay hunger and quench thirst.

In summe, this Booke containerh notable things, stories, and obseruations, 2270.

Latine Authors cited.

M. Varro, Hyginus, Scropha, Sarcena, Celsus Cornelius, Aemilius Macer, Virgil, Columella, Iulius Aquila, who wrate of the Tuscane discipline, Tarquilius, who likewise wrote of the same, and Vmbritius that trauelled in that argument, Cato Censorius, Domitius Calvinus, Trogus, Melissus, Fa∣vonius, Fabianus, Mutianus, Nigidius, Manilius, and Opius.

Forreine Writers.

Aristotle, Democritus, Neoptolemus, who wrote * 1.1 Militurgia, Aristomachus, who likewise made a

Treatise of the same, and Philistus also that did the like, Nicander, Menecr•…•…tes, Dionysius, that tran∣slated Mago, Empedocles, Callimachus, K. Attalus, Apollodorus, who wrote of venomous beasts, Hippo∣crates, Eriphilus, Erasistratus, Asclepius, Themiso, Posidonius the Stoicke, the two Menanders, one of Priene, and the other of Heraclea, Euphronius of Athens, Theophrastus, Hesiodus, and K. Philometor.

Notes

• * 1.1

  i. As touch∣ing the worke of Bees.