The coneys [are but] a feeble folk
Or "rabbits"; though some think these creatures are not intended,
because they are not so little as those with which they are
ranked, the ant, the locust, and spider; and because of the
places in which they burrow and make their houses, which though
in holes and caverns of the earth, yet not in rocky but sandy
places; rather therefore it is thought that the mountain mouse,
or bear mouse F15, as Jerom calls it, is meant; of
which, he says F16, there were great numbers in
Palestine, and which had their habitations in the holes of rocks;
though if Spain has its name from (Npv) , as some say, because of the multitudes of
coneys in it; and hence that part of Spain called Celtiberia is
called by Catullus