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and accept a ransom, even all that we unhappy can 

 offer for our poor mother — even our hapless selves. 

 Bend thy cruel heart and have regard unto the law 

 of Heaven and to the old age of a parent, if thou 

 hast thyself an aged parent left in thy bright home." 

 Such prayer might one fancy that they utter. But 

 when they see that thy heart is altogether inexor- 

 able, — how great their regard, how great their 

 love for their parents I — they come to bondage of 

 their own accord and of their own motion pass the 

 bourne. 



Yellow Sheep there are in the bounds of utmost 

 Crete, in the low land of Gortyn — Sheep -vnth four 

 horns ; and bright wool is MTeathed about their 

 flesh — abundant wool but not soft : so rugged is it 

 that it might compare ^\"ith the roughest hair of 

 Goats, not \\ith the wool of Sheep. 



Such yellow-coloured form has also the brilliant 

 Subus," but no longer shaggy nor again furnished 

 with four horns but with two strong ones above 

 amplest forehead. Amphibious too is the Subus ; 

 for he also walks upon the land ; but when he 

 travels to the deep and ploughs the swift waves, 

 then a great company of fishes attends him and 

 travels the sea along with him ; and they lick his 

 Umbs and rejoice in their homed friend, the Subus of 

 tender body. Above all the Braize * and the feeble 



etc.) and one is reminded of Aelian's amphibious ice/ids 

 (xiv. 14), where the context suggests some species of 

 Gazelle. But Oppiau's " Subus " seems to be a Sheep. 



* One of the Sea-breams (Sparidne) : either Paprus 

 vulgaris, M.G. /xepri'dvi (** c'est un nom turc equivalent au 

 grec ipv6pivo% " Apost. p. 17) or Dent ex macro phthalmus, 

 M.G. ipa-rypL A. 598 a 13; 601 b 30 : Athen. 300 e, 337 c; 

 AeL ix. 7, X. 19 ; Plin. xxxii. 12o ; Ov. Hal. 107 rutilus pagur. 



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