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ARISTOTLE 



rpocl)ifxov, TjTTov 8e acofxaTcbSes Kal ij/vxpov iariv. 

 hioirep ocra ai^ai/xa /cat /jlyj depfxa rrjv ^vaiv, ov 

 yLverat iv rat? Xlfivacs ouSe rwv dX/JLVpcov iv tols 



5 TTOTLIXOJTepOLS (xAA' rjTTOV, oloV TO. OGTpaKoSepfjia 



Kai ra [xaXaKia /cat to. fiaXaKoarpaKa {TTavra yap 

 avaipia /cat ipvxpo. ravra rrjv (f)vaiv J.Griv) , iv Se 

 rats- XiixvodaXdrraL? /cat rrpos rals e/c^SoAat? tcDv' 

 TTorafxcbv yivovTai' l,rjTov(n yap dpua riqv t' aAe'av 

 /cat TTjv Tpo(f)-qv, rj Se ddXarra vypd re /cat ctcd- 



10 p.arwh'qs ttoXXo) {xaXXov rod ttotljxov /cat depfjir] 

 T7]v (f>vatv eari, /cat KeKoivojvrjKe vdvTOJV rdJv 

 fMopicDV, vypov /cat Trvevixaros Kal yrjs, cScrre Kat 

 TTavrcov jxerex^i'V twv /ca^' cKaarov yivofievcov [iv 

 ToZs TOTTOis ^cpcov].^ Ttt fiev yap ^vrd delr) ti? dv 

 yrj?, uSaros" 8e ra evvBpa, ra Se Tre^a depos' ro 



15 Se /AaAAov /cat rjrrov Kal iyyvrepov Kal noppcorepov 

 TToXXrjv TTOtel Kal davpuaarrjv hia<f)opdv.^ rd ok 

 reraprov yivog ovk errl rovrcuv rcbv roTTOiv Set 



^ seclusit Piatt, (Lore Kal . . . ^aiiov om. 2. 

 ^ haec sensu carere monet Piatt, post iroppanepov addit Z 

 Set TiOevai, et pro TToiei PZ habent Troietv. 



" Aristotle apparently did much of his zoological work in 

 lakes and lagoons ; he refers to the lake at Siphae, P. A, 

 696 a 6, LA. 708 a 5, H.A. 504 b 32. The difference between 

 a lake and a lagoon, as distinguished in the present passage, 

 is that the former is fresh, the latter salt. For lagoons cf. 

 H.A. 598 a 20; the whole passage is apposite. Cf. also 

 763 a 29, 763 b 2. 



** It is now known that the blood serum (the fluid part of 

 the blood remaining after the cellular portion has been 

 removed by clotting) of both sea- and land-vertebrates has 



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