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



eel,* the araneus/ 59 the boca, 70 the balia, 71 the bacchus, 72 the ba- 

 trachus, 73 ' the belome, 71 known to us as " aculeati," 75 the bala- 

 mis, 70 the eorvus, 77 the citharus, the least esteemed of all the 

 turbots, the ehalcis, 7s tlie cobio, 79 the callurias, 60 which would 

 belong to the genus of the aselii * l were it not smaller ; the 

 colitis,*- otherwise known as tlie lish of Turium^ or of Sexita, M 

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

 gion, the smallest, too, of the lacerti ; b5 the colias of the 

 Mieotis, the next smallest of the laeerti ; the eybium, 1 * (the 

 name given, when cut into pieces, to the pelamis^ 7 which re- 

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

 ^Iicotis) ; the cortlyla- 9 which is also a small pelamis, so 

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

 Mieotis the cantharus,* 3 the ealliouymus* or uranoscopus, 

 the cinrcdus, the only 91 iish that is of a yellow colour ; the 

 cnide, known to us as the sea-nettle ; w the dillerent kinds of 



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



.** Or .sea-spider. See B. ix. c. 72. 



70 The same as the boyuc of the coasts of Narbonne, according to Ron- 

 delet, B. v. c. 11. 71 See Chapter 25 of the present Book. 



"- See B. ix. c. 28. " 3 Or fro^-tish. See It. ix. c. 40. 



74 ** Sea-needle*." Identified by some with the horn-lish, horn-back, 

 or nccdle.fUh. "* 4 Needle-tish." 



'* "Acorn-fish." A shell-fish, according to Kondekt, B. i. c. oO, 

 which iVcqumts the clefts of rocks. 



77 " Seu-rav.cn." According to sonic authorities, identical with the 

 Trivia hirundo of Linn.TUS. llurdouin Fays that it is the fish culled caponc 

 by the people of Hume. '* JSee B. ix. c. 71 



''* The sumo, probably, as the "gobio," mentioned in B. ix. c. 83. 



Sec U. ix. c. 28. ' * See B. ix. cc. 20, 28. 



w Tlionght. by some to be a kind of mackerel, by others to be a tunny. 

 Kondelet bays, li. viii.c. 8, that it is a ti*h still called c^juiol by the people 

 of Marseilles. * J In the llellespont 



1 Or Sexis, according to Pintianus. h5 Or " f-eii-lizurds." 



88 See B. ix. c. Ib. lie surely does not intend to include this among 

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



h7 Or yciing tunny. See B. ix. c. 18. ^ Ste It. ix. c. 18. 



*' J Kondtlct hays, B. v. c. 4, that it is a fi*h fitill known (in his time) 

 ns canthi-Ho, by tlie people of Narbonne. Ovid, in his Ilulieuticuii, 1. 103, 

 speaks of the unpleasant flavour of its juices. 



*' See Chapter 2-i of the present Bo<tk. 



vl Ofcour.se, as llurdouin says, he does not include the shell-fishes in 

 this assertion. The liah with this uncomplimentary name lias not been 

 identified. 9 - * Urticu." See B. ix. c. OS. 



