Note 1088 — ORDER XII. ARACHNIDA.1083
Reading edition
Hist. of Four-footed Beasts and Serpents, p. 753.—Scorpions are bred “from the carkass of the crocodile, as Antigonus affirms, lib. de mirab. hist. cong. 24. For in Archelaus there is an epigram of a certain Egyptian in these words:
In vos dissolvit morte, et redigit crocodilum, Natura extinctum (Scorpioli) omniparens.
In English:
The carkass of dead crocodiles is made the feed, By common nature, whence Scorpions breed.”
Moufet’s Theatr. Ins., p. 208. Topsel’s Trans., p. 1052.