CYNEGETICA, II. 392-405 



Melanurus" and the Needle-fish* and the Red Mullet<^ 

 and the Lobster ** are attendant upon him. A marvel 

 is this, a marvel unspeakable, when alien desires and 

 strange loves distress vild beasts. For it is not 

 alone for one another that God has given them the 

 compelling ordinance of mutual love, nor only so far 

 that their race should wax with everlasting life. 

 That is, indeed, a marvel, that the brute tribes 

 should be constrained by the bonds of desire and 

 should know the passions of their own kind and, 

 albeit without understanding should feel mutual 

 desire for one another, even as for men thought and 

 intelUgence opens the eye and admits love to the 

 heart ; but the wild races are also highly stirred by 

 the frenzy of alien desires. What a passion is that 

 of the lordly Stag for the Francolin * ! How great 

 that of the Partridge for the long-horned Gazelle ! 



that Aristotle described the pa<f)is as toothless, which suits 

 Si/n(/n(ithus acHS. 



' M.G. TpiyXfi, fjLirappLirovvi{a), the Roman mullus, including 

 Mullus surmuletus L. (M.G. irerpoxj/apo, raiyapoXia), J/. 

 fuscatus Rafin. (M.G. fxirapfiwovvi), M. barhatiis L. (M.G. 

 Ke^oXdSej, from shape of head, which presents an almost 

 vertical profile). ■* llomarus vulgaris. 



' aTrayrjv, a.TTa-ya.%, arTaSvyis (Hesych.), ray-qvapLov (Said, 

 who says it was abundant in Marathon), prob. Tetrao 

 francoUnus L. Not now found in Greece but resident in 

 Asia Minor, esp. in the swampy regions (rd Xinvudi] Kai 

 IXeio x^P^"- KaTa}i6(TK€Tai, Suid. s.r.) of the S. (Momms. p. 

 -261). "In the rich lowland plains, as of Gennesaret, Acre, 

 and Phoenicia, the place of the Partridge is taken by the 

 Francolin, a bird of the same family, . . . formerly found 

 in S. Europe as far as Spain, but now quite extinct on this 

 continent " (Tristr. p. -2-28) ; A. 617 b -25 to xpiljua (of the 

 d(TKa\d}iras, Woodcock) 5fj.oi.ov aTTayrji-i ; 633 a 30 o<roi fxr] 

 TTTTjTLKol dW (wiyfiot, KOViffTtKoi, olov d\cKTo/)£S, Ttepdi^, a.TTayqv ; 

 Athen. 387 ff. ; Acl. iv. 4-2, etc. ; Plin. x. 133. 



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