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The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 5 (of 6)

Note 2671 — BOOK XXIX. REMEDIES DERIVED FROM LIVING CREATURES. (continued 2)

John Bostock translation

Ajasson seems to think that this passage means that the ant itself adopts this plan of catching the cricket. If so, he is certainly in error, and his attack upon Pliny’s credulity is, in this instance at least, misplaced.

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