CYNEGETICA, II. 207-221 



avoids <• the track of men, because the paths of mortak 

 are profane to wild beasts. 



Above all wild beasts the Stags of goodly liorn 

 plunie themselves upon their beauty, having a rich 

 and various growth of horn. Indeed when their 

 branching horns in due season fall off, they dig a 

 trench in the ground and bury them,* lest someone 

 chance upon them in the furrow and take them, and 

 themselves hide " in the depths of the dense thickets, 

 ashamed that wild beasts should behold thus naked 

 their heads that aforetime soared so high. 



Deer are amphibious.** For they tread the solid 

 earth and cross the deep, voyaging together in com- 

 pany when they travel over the sea.« One in front 

 leads the Deer in hne, even as a pilot handles the 



irap€\66vT€s els ras Xoxp-o-s ■ . . iprjfioi yap tQiv dfj-vvrripiwi' Si/res 

 a<pripr)<TdaL Kal Tr)v dX/cTji' TmricrTevKaaLv ; Plin. viii. llocornua 

 mares habent solique animalium omnibus annis stato veris 

 tempore amittunt, idee sub ista die quam maxime invia 

 petunt. Latent araissis velut inermes. Cf. A. De Plant. 

 818 b 25. 



•* In the popular sense. Cf. Plat. Ax. 368 c (of sailor) 6 

 yap eiriyeios dvdpuiros ws diJ.(f)i^Los avrbv tis to ireXayos ippc^pev, 

 Amm. Marc. xxii. 1,5. li Exuberat Aegyptus pecudibus 

 multis, inter quas terrestres sunt et aquatiles : aliae quae 

 humi et in humoribus vivunt unde d/x^i^iot ; Colum. viii. 13 

 eas aves quas Graeci vocant dju^i/Stois, quia non tantum 

 terrestria sed aquatilia quoque desiderant pabula, nee magis 

 humo quam stagno consueverunt. Eiusque generis anser . . .; 

 G. White, X. H. of Selhorne, xxix. *' Quadrupeds that prey 

 on fish are amphibious. Such is the otter " ; Ael. xi. 37 

 dfj.(t>i^ia 5e tiriros Trord/iios, ivvdpos, Kacrup, KpoKodeiXos. In 

 stricter sense Arist. ap. Athen. 306 b (Newt) ; A. P. vi. 43 

 (Frog). See A. 589 a 10; 566 b 27. A. does not use the 

 term dfupi^ios (except ap. Athen. 306 b) but (ira/.tffxn-epiifLv. 



* PUn. viii. 114 maria trameant gregatim nantes porrecto 

 ordine et capita imponentes praecedentium clunibus vicibus- 

 que ad terga redeuntes. Cf. Ael. v. 56 ; Solin. xix. 11. 



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