Chap. 53.] ANIMALS THAT EXIST IN THE SEA. 61 



eel," the araneus,^^ the boca/° the batia," the bacchus,'^ the ba- 

 trachus,'^ the belonse,^* known tons as ''aculeati,"''^ the bala- 

 nus,^^ the corvus,'^ the citharus, the least esteemed of all the 

 turbots, the chalcis,'® the cobio/^ the callarias,^° which would 

 belong to the genus of the aselli®^ were it not smaller; the 

 colias,^^ otherwise known as the fish of Parium®^ or of Sexita,^* 

 this last from a place of that name in Bsetica its native re- 

 gion, the smallest, too, of the lacerti f^ the colias of the 

 Maeotis, the next smallest of the lacerti ; the cybium,^^ (the 

 name given, when cut into pieces, to the pelamis^*^ which re- 

 turns at the end of forty days from the Euxine to the Palus 

 Maeotis) ; the cordyla^^ — which is also a small pelamis, so 

 called at the time when it enters the Euxine from the Palus 

 Maeotis — the cantharus,^^ the callionymus^'^ or uranoscopus, 

 the cinaedus, the only^^ fish that is of a yellow colour ; the 

 cnide, known to us as the sea-nettle f^ the different kinds of 



68 " Anguilla." See B. ix. cc. 2, 37, 38. 



^9 Or sea-spider. See B. ix. c. 72. 



"0 The same as the bogue of the coasts of Narbonne, according to Ron- 

 delet, B. V. c. 11. ^^ See Chapter 25 of the present Book. 



" See B. ix. c. 28. " Or frog-fish. See 13. ix. c. 40. 



■'^ " Sea-needles." Identified by some with tke horn-fish, horn-back, 

 orneedle-fish. "J^ "Needle-fish." 



'^^ " Acorn-fish." A shell-fish, according to Rondelet, B. i. c. 30, 

 which frequents the clefts of rocks, 



■'^ " Sea-raven." According to some authorities, identical with the 

 Trigla hirundo of Linnaeus. Hardouin says that it is the fish called capone 

 by the people of Eome. '''=' See B. ix. c. 71 



^^ The same, probably, as the " gobio," mentioned in B. ix. c. 83. 



80 See B. ix. c. 28. si gee B. ix. cc. 25, 28. 



82 Thought by some to be a kind of mackerel, by others to be a tunny. 

 Rondelet says, B. viii. c. 8, that it is a fish still called cogiiiol by the people 

 of Marseilles. ''•^ In the Hellespont. 



^^ Or Sexis, according to Pintianus. ^^ Or " sea-lizards." 



*^ See B. ix. c. 18. He surely does not intend to include this among 

 his " one hundred and seventy-six different kinds of aquatic animals" ! 



8^ Or young tunny. See B. ix. c. 18. ^s g^g B. ix. c. 18. 



^9 Rondelet says, B. v. c. 4, that it is a fish still known (in his time) 

 as cantheno, by the people of Narbonne. Ovid, in his HaHeuticon, 1. 103, 

 speaks of the unpleasant flavour of its juices. 



"0 See Chapter 24 of the present Book. 



5^ Of course, as Hardouin says, he does not include the shell-fishes in 

 this assertion. The fish with this uncomplimentary name has not beea 

 identified. ^^ " Urtica." See B. ix. c. 68. 



