144 TECTIBRANCHIATA.—APLYSIADA. 
some of it to the chin, some hairs fell from the 
part.* 
For myself, however, I can state, that I have 
freely handled many specimens of A. hybrida, both 
young and adult, when newly taken out of the 
water, without perceiving the least unpleasant sen- 
sation, either of feeling or smell. 
Among the ancient Romans, the Sea-hare was 
esteemed highly venomous, and it certainly formed 
SEA-HARE. 
one ingredient in the poisonous draughts that were 
used in the corrupt ages of the empire for the vile 
purpose of assassination. Locusta used it to destroy 
such as were inimical to Nero; it entered into the 
fatal potion which she prepared for the tyrant 
himself, and which he had not resolution to 
swallow; and Domitian was accused of having 
‘iven it to his brother Titus. 'T’o search after the 
Sea dias was to render one’s self suspected; and 
* De Anim. Marin. 
