{84} Horse ants, from [Greek], a horse; and [Greek], an ant. {85a} From [Greek], olus, any kind of herb; and [Greek], penna, a wing. {85b} Millii jaculatores, darters of millet; millet is a kind of small grain.

The ground Serves you as bed, and millet is your food, Or rotten wheat and barley.

Millet is sixpence and barley three groats.

Millet was himself a peasant, he used to say, and his moral purpose, if he had any, was the glorification, so far as art can effect it, of his class, the class which above all others in his eyes dignified humanity and held his sympathy.