Among the rodents the hamster and the field-mouse are a scourge to agriculture.
Sixty strokes of an ox-hide scourge were awarded for a brutal assault on a superior, both being amelu.
Florus actually dared to scourge and crucify Jews who belonged to the Roman order of knights.
The various species of rapacious animals are disappearing, together with the colonies of marmots; the insectivores are also becoming scarce in consequence of the destruction of insects; while vermin, such as the suslik, or pouched marmot (Spermophilus), and the destructive insects which are a scourge to agriculture, become a real plague.
Next came the successful attempt to deal with the fatal cattle scourge known as anthrax.