LIBER VIII · CAPUT 29
NATIONS THAT HAVE BEEN EXTERMINATED BY ANIMALS
Latine · Mayhoff 1906
nec minus clara exitii 5 documenta sunt etiam contemnendis animalibus. M. Varro auctor est a cuniculis suffossum in Hispania oppidum, a talpis in Thessalia, ab ranis civitatem in Gallia pulsam, ab locustis in Africa, ex Gyara Cycladum insula incolas a muribus fugatos, in Italia Amynclas a serpentibus deletas. citra Cynamolgos Aethiopas late deserta regio est, a scorpionibus et solipugis gente sublata, et a scolopendris abactos Rhoetienses auctor est Theophrastus. sed ad reliqua ferarum genera redeamus.
English · Bostock & Riley 1855–57
We have accounts, too, no less remarkable, in reference even to the most contemptible of animals. M. Varro informs us, that a town in Spain was undermined by rabbits, and one in Thessaly, by mice; that the inhabitants of a district in Gaul were driven from their country by frogs, and a place in Africa by locusts; that the inhabitants of Gyarus, one of the Cyclades, were driven away by mice; and the Amunclæ, in Italy, by serpents. There is a vast desert tract on this side of the Æthiopian Cynamolgi, the inhabitants of which were exterminated by scorpions and venomous ants. and Theophrastus informs us, that the people of Rhœteum were driven away by scolopendræ. But we must now return to the other kinds of wild beasts.