LICE, Pediculi. The Hebrew, Kinnim, in the Septuagint and Vulgate translated Sciniphes, signifies Lice according to the Rabbins, and the Generality of modern Interpreters. See hereafter SCINIPHES1.
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Translators’ note. Swarms of Lice were one of the Egyptian Plagues. The Word for them in the LXX is Κνῖπες. And Hesychius says, Κνὶψ ἐστι ζῶον πτηνὸν ὅμοιον κώνωπι. Diodorus Siculus l. iii. c. 3. speaking of the Acridophagi, or eaters of Locusts, says, that when they grow old, their Bodies breed a kind of winged Lice, by which they are devoured. It is the Conjecture of Pererius, and approved by Rivet, that it was some new kind of Creature, called analogically by an old known Name. 9 Irenæ. l. iv. Tertull. contra Judæos. c. xi. Cyprian. de Idol. Vanitat. Lactant. l. iv. c. 18. Cyrill. Jerosol. cathech. 13. Athanas. l. i. de Incarn. Aug. l. xvi. c. 22. contra Faust. ↩