Chap. 51.] FISHES MEN'TICKED IX THE POEM OF OVID. (j^ 



aulos, donax, onyx or dactylus; the spomlylus,*' tlic smaris,* 7 

 the starfish, 5 * and the sponges." There is the sea- thrush 1 also, 

 famous among the rock-fish, the thynnis, 2 the thranis, by some 

 writers known as the xiphias ; 3 the thrissa, 4 the torpedo, 5 the 

 tethea, 6 the tritomus, a large kind of pelarnis, 7 which admits 

 of being cut into three cybia ;" the shells of Venus, 9 the grape- 

 fish, 10 and the 



CHAP. 54. - ADDITIONAL NAMES OF FISHES FOUND IN THE POKM 



OF OVID. 



To the above enumeration we will add some names given in 

 the poem of Ovid, 12 which are not to be found in any other 

 writer : species, however, which are probably peculiar to the 

 Kuxinc, on the shores 13 of which he commenced that work 

 towards the close of his life. The fishes thus mentioned by 

 him are the sea-ox, the cercyrus, that dwells among the rocks, 

 the orphus, 1 * the red erythinus, 15 the iulus, 1B the tinted nior- 

 myr, the chrysophrys 17 a fish of a golden colour, the paiiis, 1 * 

 the tragus, 19 the melanurus* remarkable for the beauty of its 

 tail, and the epodea, 51 a ilat fish. 



In addition to these remarkable kinds of fishes, the same 

 poet tells us that the channes 2 - conceives of itself, that the 



Vt A sort of mollusk, Littre thinks. There is a shell-fifth known as the 

 Spondylus gocderopua of Linna-us. 



* 7 Si-e Chapters 31, 45, and 46, of this Book. w See B. ix. c. S6. 



^ See B. ix. c. 69. l Sec B. ix. c. 20. 



2 A sort of tunny, probably. 



3 See Chapter 6 of this Book. Probably the saint- as the "gladiiw" 

 of this Chaptt-r, ami of H. ix. cc. 1, 21. 



4 CoiiMdcivu }>\- Littrc to be the Shad. 5 Sec 1J. ix. c. 67. 



8 See Chapter 30 of this Book. 7 See B. ix. c. 18. 



8 See B. ix. c. 18. 9 See B. ix. c. 52, and Chapter 1 of this Hook. 



lu See B. ix. c. 1, and c. 49 of this Book. n See Note 3 above. 



' The Halicuticon, already mentioned in Chapter 5 of this Book. 

 13 At the town off omi, whither he was banished by Augustus C'resar. 

 11 See It. ix. c. 21. 



15 See IJ. ix. cc. 23, 77, and Chapters 31, 50, of this Book. 



16 The same, probably, as the " iulis" mentioned in the preceding Chapter. 



17 The golden brow." The same as the **Aurata" or ** dorado" of 

 B. ix. c. 25, and Chapters 16 and 53 of this Book. 



'* An unknown tUh ; the raiding is doubtful. 



19 The " ^out-ti-sh." It docs not appear to have been identified. 



2(1 Literally, the " Mack tail." See the preceding Chapter. 



21 According to R>ndelet, a fish resembling the Coraeinus. 



22 See B. ix. c. 23. 



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