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Publius Villius, a Roman knight, on the road to Sabinia, had been killed by lightning, together with his horse. The temple of Feronia, in the Capenatian district, had been struck by lightning. At the temple of Moneta, the shafts of two spears had taken fire and burned.
And among what our poet so eloquently calls 'the vast and noble scenes of Nature, we find the balm for the wounds we have sustained among the 'pitiful shifts of policy; for the attachment to solitude is the surest preservative from the ills of life: and I know not if the Romans ever instilled, under allegory, a sublimer truth than when they inculcated the belief that those inspired by Feronia, the goddess of woods and forests, could walk barefoot and uninjured over burning coals."
The Ageronia feronia makes a noise like that produced by a toothed wheel passing under a spring catch, and which can be heard at the distance of several yards: I noticed this sound at Rio de Janeiro, only when two of these butterflies were chasing each other in an irregular course, so that it is probably made during the courtship of the sexes. See my 'Journal of Researches, 1845, p. 33. Mr. Ent.
And among what our poet so eloquently calls 'the vast and noble scenes of Nature, we find the balm for the wounds we have sustained among the 'pitiful shifts of policy; for the attachment to solitude is the surest preservative from the ills of life: and I know not if the Romans ever instilled, under allegory, a sublimer truth than when they inculcated the belief that those inspired by Feronia, the goddess of woods and forests, could walk barefoot and uninjured over burning coals."
I allude only to the butterflies; for the moths, contrary to what might have been expected from the rankness of the vegetation, certainly appeared in much fewer numbers than in our own temperate regions. I was much surprised at the habits of Papilio feronia. This butterfly is not uncommon, and generally frequents the orange-groves.
I shall first, following Mannhardt, and making use of my own trifling researches in ancient literature, describe the rite itself. Mount Soracte Everyone has heard of Mount Soracte, white with shining snow, the peak whose distant cold gave zest to the blazing logs on the hearth of Horace. At the foot of the cliff was the precinct of Feronia, a Sabine goddess. Mr. Hirpi Sorani
Age, in relation to the transmission of characters in birds; variation in accordance with, in birds. Agelaeus phoeniceus. Ageronia feronia, noise produced by. Agrion, dimorphism in. Agrion Ramburii, sexes of. Agrionidae, difference in the sexes of. Agrotis exclamationis. Ague, tertian, dog suffering from. Ainos, hairiness of the. Aitchison, Mr., on sheep. Aithurus polytmus, young of.
Doubleday, H., on the proportion of the sexes in the smaller moths; males of Lasiocampa quercus and on the attraction of the Saturnia carpini by the female; on the proportion of the sexes in the Lepidoptera; on the ticking of Anobium tesselatum; on the structure of Ageronia feronia; on white butterflies alighting upon paper.
The spear-grass abounded, and a detestable nuisance it was, its long awns and husked seed working through trowsers and stockings. Balanites was not uncommon, forming a low thorny bush, with Aegle marmelos and Feronia elephantum.
Moreover, that the very freed-women should, according to their means, contribute money from which a present might be made to Feronia. When these things were done, the decemviri sacrificed with the larger victims in the forum at Ardea.
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