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an endless bloody stream, and the limbs and joints 

 of the beasts half-devoured quiver upon the ground ; 

 others again upon his ribs he crushes half-dead ; for 

 even in death they still keep hold with their strong 

 teeth and, chnging to liis hide, their mere heads still 

 groan. But he, knomng the gift that he hath gotten 

 from Heaven, seeks everywhere for the dark stream 

 of a river. Therefrom he kills crabs'* -v^-ith his jaws 

 and so gets a self-taught remedy for his painful woe ; 

 and speedily the remnants of the cruel beasts fall 

 from his hide of their own motion beside his feet, 

 and the wounds of their teeth on either side close up. 



The Stag, moreover, hves a long time,* and of a 

 truth men say that he hves four lives of a crow.*' 



Others again men call Broad-horns .** They are 

 altogether deer but they carry aloft such natiu-e of 

 horns as the name of the beast declares. 



ftiei XaKepvj^a Kopilivi) ; Arat. 290 ivveafipa Kopdjvi). For 

 longevity of Crow and Stag cf. Babr. xlvi. 8 ; Cic. Tusc. iii. 

 28. ti9 ; of Crow cf. A. P. v. 988 i) ypavs ij Tpi.K6pwvot ; Lucr. 

 V. 1082 ; Hor. C. iii. 17. 13 ; Mart. x. 67. 5, etc. 



•* Fallow Deer, Cerrus dama, M.G. TrXaruiyi. " Le daim 

 se trouve a I'etat sauvage en Acarnanie dans la grande foret 

 Manina qui s'etend a Touest du fleuve Achelous jusqu'a 

 Catouna, II n'y est pas tres-abondant et sa destruction est 

 a craindre " (Bik. p. 18). evpvKepus, only here and C. iii. 2 

 (except as epithet Mosch. ii. 153), seems to be the same as 

 irXaTi'Acepw (Poll. v. 76)=platyceros, Piin. xi. 123 Nee alibi 

 maior naturae lascivia. Lusit animaliura armis ; sparsit 

 haec in ramos, at cervorura ; aliis simplicia tribuit, ut in 

 eodem genere subulonibus ex argumento dictis ; aliorura 

 fudit in palraas digitosque emisit ex his, unde platycerotas 

 vocant. The last of Pliny's three species points clearly to 

 the palraated antlers of the Fallow Deer ; his first species 

 is the Red Deer, Cereus elaphus ; his second apparently 

 the Roe Deer, Cerrua capreohis, the irpb^ of A. 506 a H, 

 515 b St, 520 b 24; P. A. 650 b 15; 676 b 27. 



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