But all [other] flying creeping things
Excepting the four sorts before mentioned, wherefore we rightly supply the word "other":
which have four feet;
or more; the Vulgate Latin version adds, "only", but wrongly; for those that have more are unclean, and forbidden to be eaten, excepting those in the preceding verse; and most creeping things that fly have six feet, as the locusts themselves, reckoning their leaping legs into the number; though it may be observed, that those creatures that have six feet have but four equal ones, on which they walk or creep; and the two foremost, which are longer, are as hands to them to wipe their eyes with, and protect them from anything that may fall into them and hurt them; they not being able to see clearly because of the hardness of their eyes, as Aristotle
[shall be] an abomination unto you;
abhorred as food, and abstained from.
F1 Ut supra. (Hist. Animal. l. 9. c. 6.)
F2 De Musca.