Coenomuya

Ps. lxxvii. 50. civ. 31COENOMUYA, or Cynomya, or Cinomuia. This word is differently written in the Psalms. At present we read Cœnomyian. But the old Latin Copies read Cynomyian, Dog’s fly, as the generality of the Greek Copies do at this day. The proper and right reading is that of the Vulgate, which has Cœnomyian, a mixture of all sorts of flies; this agrees with the Hebrew¹, and the old Greek Copies. Some old Latin Psalters, such as those of Rome, Milan, and S. Peter of Chartres read, Muscam Caninam, which literally expresses the Greek, Kynomyian. S. Jerom in Exodus viii. 21. translates it Omne genus muscarum. But the Septuagint at the same place read Dog’s Fly, Cynomyian. Now this Fly is a very dangerous Insect, which fastens principally upon Dogs, and the sting of it is very malignant.

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