60 PLIXY'S NATURAL nisTouY. [Book XXXII. 



ment. We here find sea-trees, 33 physeters, 34 balccncc,- 15 pistrices, 58 

 tritons, 37 nereids,** elephants, 39 the creatures known as sea- 

 men,*" sea-wheels, 41 orcie, 4 - sea-rams/ 3 musculi, 4 * other fish too 

 with the form of ranis, 45 dolphins, 46 sea-calves, 47 so cel.obm 

 Homer, 4 ** tortoises 4 * to minister to our luxury, and beavers, so 

 extensively employed in medicine, 50 to which class belongs 

 the otter, 51 an animal which we nowhere find frequenting the 

 sea, it being only of the marine animals that we are speak- 

 ing. Tli ere are dog-fish, 5 " also, dririones, 63 coniutue," sword- 

 Hsh, w saw-fish, ** hippopotami 61 and crocodiles, 61 * common to the 

 sea, the land, and tlierhvrs; tunnies 59 also, thynnides, siluri, 55 '* 

 coracini, 00 and perch, 61 common to the sea only and to rivers. 



To the sea only, belong also the acipenscr, 6 -' the dorade, 03 

 the ascllus, 61 the achanie/- 5 the uphye, w the alopex, 67 the 



55 He may possibly allude to the plants mentioned in It. xiii. cc. 48, '19, 

 50, 51, and d'2; though liardouin seems to think it impossible to dis- 

 cover what ho means, seoing that he is speaking of sea-monsters, beings 

 with animal life, See al^o B. ix. c. 3. 



- S-e B. ix. c. 3. 35 See B. ix. cc. 2, 5. 



' Sue B. ix. c. 3; probably the same as the * 4 prifetis " of IJ. ix. c. 2. 

 S<e 13. ix. c. 4. * See B. ix. c. 4. ** See B. ix. c. 4. 



40 ' Homines marini." See B. ix. e. 4. 



41 See 15. ix. c. 3. See B. ix. c. 5. See B. ix. c. 4. 

 44 See B. ix. c. 8S, and B. xi. c. 02. * See B. ix. c. 07. 



S,e li. ix. c. 7. < See B. ix. c. 15. Odyssey, B. iv. 1. 436. 

 Turtles. See B. ix. c. 13. "> See Chapter' 13 of this Book. 



51 See B. viii. c. 47; also Chapters 26 and 32 of this Book. 



" See B. ix. c. 70. 



M The name of a fish unknown. Sillig conjectures that Pliny may 

 have had in view the fish called "droraades" by Aristotle. " Dromuues 

 is another reading, a sort of small crab. 



54 Littre traiihlates this * 4 horned ray." 



w * Gladii." St-e B. ix. cc. 1, 21 ; the same, probably, as the " xiphias" 

 mentioned at the end of this Chapter. 



46 See B. ix. e. 1. 67 See B. viii. c. 39. M See B. viii. c. 37. 



;* See B. ix. cc. 18, 20. Holland says, * Some take * thynni' for the 

 milters, and 4 thynuides' for the spuwners." In his translation, however, 

 Le identities the thynnides" with the 4 * pelamidts," or young tunnies, 

 mentioned in this Chapter, ujid in B. ix. c. lw. 



* m S.-e B. ix. cc. 17. 'A. See B. ix. cc. 24, 32* 



fcl * 4 Pcrcje." See B. ix. c. 24. See B. ix. c. 27. 



a " Aurata." See B. ix. c. 25. 6t See B. ix. cc. 2-3, 28. 



tt Considered by some to be the whiting. Littre identities it with tho 

 Perca labrux of Linnicus. 



66 See B. ix. c. 74 ; where it is called " upua." 



tf TLtt " sea- fox. 1 * See B. ix. c. 67. 



