316 ON THE ICTIS OF DIODORUS SICULUS. 
it requires no great stretch of imagination, to 
trace an analogy, between the amphibious habits 
of this animal, and the mutable character of the 
Ictis of Diodorus. 
The names of The Lioness and The Wolf 
may have been given, either from the roaring of 
the waves, and the howling of the storms, which 
have been known to produce such terrific effects 
in this sea; or from the danger incurred by the 
daring, or inexperienced mariner, on too near an 
approach to them. 
“ Hine exaudiri gemitus, ireeque leonum, 
Vincla recusantum, et sera sub nocte rudentum, 
Seetigerique sues, atque in presepibus ursi 
Sevire, ac forme magnorum ululare /uporum.” 
Virc. An. VII. 15—19. 
Allusion has already been made to inroads of 
the sea on the English coast, in the reigns of 
William Rufus, and John; and there are records 
of similar inundations in the times immediately 
weasel, nor a ferret ; but an otter. “Ixridas EvUD EWS, EY XEAELS 
Kwraides. (Acharn. 880.) Certo certius est de animali quo- 
dam aquatico Beeotum hic loqui. Bene igitur vertit Brunckius 
‘lutras’ Anglice, otters.’—Lexicon Greco-Prosodiacum. 
Auctore T. Morell, S. T.P. Edit. Alter. Londin. 1824. 
Art. «rhs; p- 412. 
