Observations on a mode practised in Italy of excluding the common house-fly from apartments / by William Spence.

  • Spence, William, 1783-1860
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[1836]
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Credit: Observations on a mode practised in Italy of excluding the common house-fly from apartments / by William Spence. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    enter fully into this matter would at present occupy too much of the Society’s time, on which I have already trespassed longer than I originally meant, and as, besides, it will be best that he to whom this unexpected coincidence first occurred should himself explain the sub¬ ject in detail, I shall leave it to him to lay before the Society the passage in question, and such comments as it may suggest, at a fu¬ ture meeting. II. Remarks on the Passage in Herodotus referred to in Mr. Spence’s Paper, read at the April Meeting. By W. B. Spence, Esq.,M.E.S. France, For. Sec. Ent. Soc. [Read May 5, 1834.] I beg leave to lay before the Society a few remarks on the passage of Herodotus referred to in my father’s late paper, which was brought to my recollection on hearing him mention that flies were kept out of houses at Florence by merely having a net stretched across the windows. The passage in question occurs in the second book of Herodotus, in which, after having given a general description of the customs, manners, and religion of the Egyptians, he goes on to describe the natural history of the country, and forms the 95th chapter, which is as follows : 95. Tlpog SI tqv$ xdovco7rtx$ cc<pOovou$ sdvrtxg rdSe c<£i etti uospoYi^otvY]- IiLsvot. toin; poEV tcc uvw tu>v eXecjov oixeovtci$ ol 7rvpyoi oo<$s\eqv(ti, If oi)f SiVot£ctlvovTs$ xoipoEOVTai' oi ydp xwv'sO’Treg xjto twv dvspu/ov oux olo'i ts sun 7tetetQui. toivi SI 7rsp) too eAsa olxsoucn rdS= dvr) tcjov 7r6pyoov aAAd p,ep,i^avrjTat. 7raf dvyp avTsoov dpu$l&\Yi<TTpov exty\tou, Top TYjS fJOEV ypoepYJS h)£0Uf dypEOEl, TY)V SI VVXTOO Tads tXVTCti ^pOOTOil EV Tp dvonroiusTCii xolrp’ nrsp\ toouty]v 'l<TTp<n to dpotpi&Xrjarpov, xooi Ensirot IvSuf, VTV OOUTOp XCtdsvdEl. 01 SI XMV007TSg, >JV /xlv EV IfJoOtTlcp EVE\l%d[J.EVO$ EuSp Y] (Tivdovi, Sid TOUTOOV SdxVOUCTi* Sid SI TOV SIXTUQV OuSI TTEipcvvrat dpXY)V. Of the above passage the following is a translation, which I have made as literal as possible; but that there may be no doubt of its general accuracy I have compared it with the various translations of Schweighseuser, Larcher, and Beloe, with which in substance it exactly agrees :