BOOK I 



sturgeon, pike, cod, wrasse, lamprey; varieties of 

 muUet ; the sargus. (xxxi f.) Remarkable prices for 

 fish. Different kinds popular in different places. 

 (xxxiii) Gills in various species ; scales ditto. (xxxiv f.) 

 Fish with voice, fish without gills ; fish that go ashore. 

 Seasons for catching fish. (xxxvi) Classification of 

 fish by shape. Difference between turbot and 

 sparrow-turbot. Long fishes. (xxxvii) Fins and 

 mode of swimming. (xxxviii) E,els. (xxxix) Lam- 

 preys. (xl) Kinds of flat-fish. (xU) The remora and 

 how it operates. (xhi) What fish change colours. 

 (xhii) Swallow-fish. The fish that shines by night. 

 The horned fish. The Aveever. (xUv) The blood- 

 less fishes. The so-called soft fishes. (xlv) The sepia- 

 fish. The cuttle-fish. The smaU scallops. Flying 

 fish. (xlvi-ix) The polyps, including the saiUng 

 polyp. The sailor-fish. (l-Ui) SheU-fish : lobster, 

 varieties of crab, the sea-pen's guard, sea-urchins, 

 snails, scaUops. Varieties of sheU. (Uii) Quantity 

 of deUcacies suppUed by the sea. (liv-Ux) Pearls — 

 how do they grow and where, how found; varieties 

 of large pearl — their remarkable features, their 

 nature, instances of their occurrence, when first used 

 at Rome. (Ix-lxv) Nature of varieties of purple — 

 the purple-fish ; kinds of purple-fish ; how used to 

 supply dye for wooUens ; date of use of purple at 

 Rome, date of purple stripe and purple-bordered 

 robe ; purple dyed dresses ; dying amethyst ; Tyrian, 

 vegetable-scarlet, kermes-scarlet. (Ixvi) The sea-pen 

 and the sea-pen's guard. (Ixvii) Perception of aquatic 

 animals : the electric ray, sting-ray, scolopendrae, 

 shad, ramming-fish. (Ixviii f.) Species intermediate 

 between animal and vegetable : sea-nettles ; sponges, 



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