585. =¡Ahora es ella!= See note to II, 86. The neuter feminine
is less common with the subject form of the pronoun; but
examples are found. See Hanssen, _Gramática histórica de la
lengua castellana_, § 502.
649. =la tarántula=; the tarantula is a kind of spider, taking
its name from the city of Taranto in southern Italy. Tradition,
which modern science cannot corroborate, has it that the bite
of the tarantula produces a sort of sleeping sickness known as
_Tarantism_. To rouse the sufferers a wild music (_tarantella_) was
played, which caused them to dance till a profuse perspiration
broke out, when the effects of the poison were thrown off.