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128. Box boops (L.)- H- ^''^"" d)- 



Apost. 23 {Box hoops), f iim-a and yau-a. lim^ or [ioo.^, now 

 used as scientific name for this genus occurs in Aristotle 610b 4, 

 1528a 20. He says that they are found in schools. Those (?) 

 marked on the back OMmnyiifj-zo.) are called [joj:, but those mnrked 

 obliquely {ri/MUny (>'>■'' "^ fii'e called ■/.(>).ia<; {fj/.olia^'). See Athen- 

 aeus vii, 27, where a number of references to the /Ja)^ are given 

 from different authors. It was a favorite food fish. Athenaeus 

 derives its name fioa^ from the word yS'f-yj', a cry or shout, and 

 defends this form of the name and derivation against Aristo- 

 phanes of Byzantium, who says: "We wrongly call the fish fiwxa 

 (/5tti|), and ought to call it [ioin-a {'{i!('noi^<), since being a little fish 

 it has large eyes. It should be fiowtl' = having the eyes of an 

 ox." [:i6u)(l' is compounded of fino'i, stem, /5(>(F) and w^'-, and 

 appears in Homer in the feminine f )rm [iom-t'S as a common epi- 

 thet of Hera. The word means ox-eyed, large-eyed. If this is 

 the fish now called ftCo-a the authority of Aristophanes of Byzan- 

 tium prevailed. At any rate, the /5tt)| was a small fish with large 

 eyes, having peculiar markings on its back, running in shoals, and 

 admired by epicures. 



129. Boops salpa (L). H. -«/-« Q, yo-a (J. 



Apost. 23 {Box salpa), (ral-a. Aristotle naX-ri. 1528a 4, 1531a 

 1 2 3, 534a 9, 62lb 7, 598a 20, 570b 17,543a 8, 543b 8. 



The na/.-r^ has an especially acute sense of hearing, is enticed 

 by malodorous bait such as dung, spawns in autumn in some 

 places, but in most places in the beginning of summer, feeds on 

 dung and seaweed, may be caught with pumpkin, spawns in the 

 lagoons of the sea, is not carnivorous ; it is much lined and red- 

 lined, i. e. marked by many red (orange?) lines, has jagged teeth, 

 and is solitary; it is best in harvest time. Athen, vii, 118, The 

 adX-ri is variegated in color. Whence Mnaseas, who com[)iled the 

 work entitled " Sports," was called -aA-// by his acquaintances 

 on account of the brilliant variety of the collection. There is a 

 similar fish in the Red Sea called <Tir/>ai//.arcf^% having golden 

 bands extending across all its body as Philo reports in his " Met- 

 allicon." 



130. Oblada melanura (L). H. Ms/.avnopt (J. 



Apost. 23 {Oblada melanura), /j.-?.ay(r)pc, black-tail. Aristotle 

 .591a 15, 1528a 24, 1511b 37, 1512a 3, /j-sXayuopoi. It feeds on sea- 



