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I. CYNOCEPHALUS. 



undc Ari/lot.Kcc^X^^So^ovJa: animalia, qvibus acuti peclina- 

 timqve cocuiitcs dcntcs. Tibiiro, Lnmia, Lnmna, Autorumi 

 confer : Williighb. p. 47. & Dn. Hans Sloane H. ^aniaic. l. 2/^.. 

 Bos bcllua& caniculaP. ^oviidc rom. pifc.cap. IH. a) Sqva- 

 lus dorib plano b) dcntibus piuribus ad hitera ferratis, 

 Artedi c). Scaligcro ., Bocharto ^ aliis, piicis, qvi Jonam 

 Prophetam voraverit, audit. Integri piieis accuratam figu- 

 ram nullibi offendimus. Gfj-;/m, qvatn dedit , figura arbi- 

 traria eft; neqvc Aldrovandi figurisfidem habeamus , li vel 

 capita pifcium conferantur cum LamiaEcapitc, facieriduqve 

 canino, cujus effigics proftat mMercatiMerallotheca6iCi[m(i 

 Nicol. Stenonium,qvi caput diffccuit. Defideratur itaq ve l^imati 

 hujus pilcis icon ab omni partc abfoluta. De lapidibus in 

 ejus capite vid. Mijf. 11. 



a) Ibi hinoria /Ethiopisab hocpitce dcvorati. In noflroexemplo hbelliadmarginetnlcripta 

 ,,Iegimus verba: «con un.T ternbile apertura di bocca. Negli anali di Genoua dc 

 j.Giuninicnofi Icgge un fimilcaro d'un fanciullo more , fchiavo de Luigi Giberto, 

 „ clie nuotando con altri fanciulli fu inghillito da un pefce di fpecie canina». 

 „Confcr. Ronidct : &: Dn. Hans Slo/tne H. jAm.I, i], „Thofeof Nice told Gillius 

 „on of four thoufand poand vveight had been taken, vvherein vvas a folid man; and 

 „tho(e of marfeilles took had a loricatum hominem in him„. MafTilise & Niceseali- 

 qvando capts funt Lamix, in qvarum ventriculo homo loricatus inventus. 



b) Potius latiori reliqvorum dorfis. Dorfum breve , ad mundos comparatum , latiflimuni 

 ell ; WillHghb. p. 4 7. Alirov. de fifc. p. J ^ ?. 



c) Siqvisdentes folTiles, vulgo glofTopetras, & ferratos & fimplici vellaevi acie acumina- 



tos, maximiqve moduli, cum denlibus Lamiarum Canumve hactenus cognitis contu- 

 lerit, ultro fatebitur, dari horum plures fpccies, qvam defcriptas habemus, ncqvc 

 omncs hujus generis \^'&is ferratis innrutftos effe dentiius. Exempla defumantur ex 

 Aldrov. Muf. metall. p. gii, Besleri imonhas; i^cifwffeifr/qvcrelis pifrium&c. ubi> 

 intcr alios , dens maximus acic vel ora non ferrata , confer. Sttnonii dijf, cap, Carcbit- 

 ri* lab, yi. 0f. 



Cynocephalus Glaucus ; a conftanti colore, qvi iu dorfo pulchre 

 cxruleus, faturacior, in ventre argenteus. Angl. the blew- 

 Shark. Galeus Glaucus, Rondelet. Gesn. Aldrov. Williighb. 

 Sqvalus foffula triangulari in extremodorlb a), foramini- 

 busnuUisadoculos b), Artedi. yAavxcj ^lianij Charle- 



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