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seems to serve it for a shell : if it meets with any of the 

 small fishes, it detains them in the same way that it does 

 the hand. Thus whatever edible thing it meets with, it 

 devours. One kind of them is at large, and devours 

 whatever sea-urchins, 1 or cockles, 2 it meets with : it appears 

 to have no excrement, in this respect resembling plants. 

 There are two kinds of Acalephes ; one smaller, and best 

 adapted for the table ; the other large and hard, such as 

 are produced about Chalcis. In the winter their flesh is 

 firm they are therefore caught and eaten at that season 

 but in summer they dissolve, for they become watery, 

 and when touched they immediately are so damaged as 

 not to be removable. 3 When suffering from the heat they 

 withdraw within the rocks," 4 And again " It has a 

 mouth in the middle, which is chiefly conspicuous in the 

 large ones; it has, like the bivalve shell-fish, a passage 

 by which the excrements are voided, which is in their 

 upper surface : like them too it has the fleshy part 

 within, but it uses the rock as a shell." 5 



With regard to his Guide, of which he treats at the 

 same time with the sponges, as inhabiting the caverns 

 of the rocks he says, "Of the Cnides there are two 

 kinds, one in the hollows, which adheres to the rocks ; 

 others, that range at large, are met with in smooth places, 6 

 and on the flat shore." 7 



1 E^lVOl. 2 Gr. RTEVtQ. 



3 The word I have rendered watery (padapoc;) means properly 

 without hairs ; but //aSaw is used by Theophrastus to express 

 moisture, and is used here evidently in a similar sense. 



4 Aristot. Hist. Anim. 1. iv. c. 6. 5 Ibid. 1. viii. c. 2. 



6 In the text it is iv roig jj.eto(ri, but Athenseus reads EV rots 

 Xaoic, which better agrees with the context. 



7 Gr. TrAara/uwSco-u/ it may perhaps mean flat rocks. Aristot. 

 Ibid. \. v. c. 16. 



