Note 398 — BOOK THE TWELFTH.

Footnote 398: (return) Or “streaked.” See Porphyr. Quæst. iii. But Buttmann, Lexil. p. 64, dwells much upon the force of μέσον, observing, “in no insect is flexibility more evident than in the wasp, where the lower part of its body is joined as it were by a point with the upper.”