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fctmpi VII. O T °M> ATN € P EiS? T E R: 2591 word Butter from the Greek (&uq and tuq®* ox-cheefe. The word mud be Celtic, as the Romans muft have adopted it from: their Celtic neighbours. And Butyrum feems nothing more than. Buyd Ur the Chief pn EtfceljGfit Jf ocjd, bfcing appropriated (as I have obferved above) to their chiefs. — 6 Strabo p. 305. — 7 Pliny lib. xi. c. 42. — * Strabo p. 305. — * Diodorus p. 3,50, and Oflian vol. I. p. 147. and vol. IT. p. 62. Solinus c. 22. aflerts the Bri- tons of Ireland to have had no bees in his time. But the Ca- ledonians appear from Oflian to have had them. — ,0 Baxter on* Bafcauda. And fo Kauelh, an hamper or large bafket im Welch, 'is a beehive in Cbrriiffi- (Lhuy d*s Compar. Etyro. "p t 3.^.- ^. Another 4 fitch hive was found about forty or iifty years ago in the neighbouring Linyflttrw 'Mbk-— ,x Caefar p.' tip. 'Gallfc natn et-Ahferem' guftarey fas? noti ptotant: 1 haec tamen ahmt' am* ini voluptatilque caufa. — ^ 1J Strabo p. 506. — H Pliny lib. i$f. c. $1 -1" Columella lib. ii.' cl 16.— * Varrb c. 12. lib. iii.-- 17 Dio p. 1006. — " Caefar p. 89. — ^L'epbrem* ahmt animt volupta*- tilque .cavrfli (Caefar p. 89.)— %Q Pegged Coins p.' 89, .for a fow and 'pigs defcribed ; tpon : it'Brttiftv coin.' ,; And ^e*' Strabo p. 30 r, in Whofe tirrfe the<3ajlic fcJWs rarige* aftroad itfth^fidcfa very large ftrohg and Ir^ift, 1 Srirf ' is dangerous to be approached fry a ftranger even as a wolf.— ^ l Pliny lib. xvfii. <r> 28; And this:» mentioned in the tenth century and in the lawfc of Howtl Dhfr Ub. Hi. c. 2i. A. 4§>: as thferi cultivated in Wales* ■ ' > Paffirtique- Armehta videbaur Btomanbque For o, et lautis mugire. Carinis;! Vixens

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