Gleanings From the Natural History of the Ancients
The book Gleanings From the Natural History of the Ancients was written by author Morgan George Watkins Here you can read free online of Gleanings From the Natural History of the Ancients book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Gleanings From the Natural History of the Ancients a good or bad book?
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He adds : " With what filence, with what light footfteps do cats creep upon birds ! how fuddenly, when they have fpied them, do they fpring out upon mice!" (x. 73, 202). Arguing from this and fimilar paflages, the late Prof. Rollefton and others believed that the do- Natural Htftory of the Ancients. 63 meftic animal of the Greeks and Romans, for which we now ufe the cat, was the white-breafted marten. The word feles, it is true, is commonly ufed for the weafel ; but, on the other hand, its Gree...k fynonym aiXou/ooc, according to the beft derivation by Buttemann, applies exactly to the wavy motion of the tail fo peculiar to the cat family. The Englim term " cat " probably comes from the Latin cat us (cunning). In Anglo-Saxon documents it is found with the fpelling " catt. " "When Julius Casfar landed here, " fays Mivart (utfup. , p. 2), " our forefts were plentifully fup- plied with cats, while probably not a (ingle moufer exifted in any Britifh town or village. " The wild cat is at prefent reftricted to the extreme north and north-weftern diftricts of Scotland, having become extinct in England, and never feemingly having exifted at all in Ireland.
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