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the horned Brocket " or Partridges wheel swiftly about 

 the Gazelle and cool their sweat and comfort their 

 hearts in the sweltering heat with the flapping of 

 their wings ; or when before a Horse of clattering 

 hoof the Bustard goes, gliding delightful through 

 the air ; or when the Sargues * approach the herds of 

 Goats. About the Subus, indeed, the whole wander- 

 ing tribe of fishes is fluttered and all follow with him 

 when he ploughs the wild waves and throng on either 

 side for joy and the sea foams round about, lashed 

 by their white fins. But he, recking not of their 

 strange friendship, all lawlessly devours his com- 

 panions of the sea and banquets on them with bloody 

 jaws. And they, though seeing doom before their 

 eyes, hate him not even so nor desert their slayer. 

 Wretched Subus, worker of evil, for thine own self 

 hereafter shall the hunters devise death by sea, crafty 

 though thou art and slayer of fishes ! 



There is a certain sharp-horned beast that dwells 

 in the thickets, even the fierce Oryx,'^most formidable 



ffirdpos, etc., a Sea-bream; A. 543 a 7, 591 b 19 ; Athen. 

 313 d, 3-21 a : Plut. Mor. 977 f ; Plin. ix. 162. For Sargues 

 and Goats cf. H. iv. 308 IF. ; Ennius aj). Apul. Apol. 60. 



' Oryx hucoryx (the Sable Antelope) from Kordofan to 

 the Syrian and Arabian deserts ; and O. heisa, in Somaliland, 

 etc. ; both figured on Egyptian monuments. The latter 

 species is distinguished by its black face and cheeks ; cf. 

 A. Bonnet, UOryx dans Vancienne l^tfypte, Lyon, 1908. 

 Plin. X. 201 orygem perpetuo sitientia Africae generant ; cf. 

 viii. 214; luv. xi. 140 Gaetulus oryx; Mart. xiii. 95 Matuti- 

 narum non ultima praeda ferarum Saevus oryx constat quod 

 mihi raorte canum? Herod, iv. 192 Kal opi'es, tQiv tol Ktpea. 

 Toiiri ^oivi^i oi irrjxees TroteOvrai {/xeyados Se to dijpiov Kara 

 ^ovv eari). We are not here concerned with the fabled 

 Oryx of A. 499 b 20 /xovoKepwv Kal SixaXov 6pi'| ; cf. P. A. 

 663 a 23 ; Plin. ii. 107, xi. ^55 unicorne et bisulcum oryx ; 

 Ael. vii. 8, etc. ; Plut. Mor. 974 f. 



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