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more pleasant to behold with glad eyes, neither 

 amid all that walk mother earth, giver of all gifts, 

 nor amid all that travel on wings the spacious air, 

 nor amid those that in the deep cleave the wild 

 waves : in such wise on the splendid birds twinkles 

 blazing fire mingled with the sheen of gold. 



I will not tell of the chilly race of the prickly 

 Hedgehog " — the lesser ; for two dread forms there 

 are of the sharp-spined Hedgehogs with chilly fence 

 encircling them. The one kind are small and feeble 

 and bristle with small jutting spines ; the other sort 

 are far larger in size and have stronger prickles 

 bristling sharp on either side. 



I leave the triple breeds of Apes,^ those \'illainous 

 mimics." For who would not abhor such a race, ugly 

 to look on, weak, loathsome, evil of aspect, crafty of 

 counsel ? These, though they bring forth twin chil- 

 dren of evil naien, divide not their love equally 



fivCiv fivta. rpi^a avrodi (in Libya) eart , . . oi 5e exi-^fei ; 

 Plin. viii. 231 plura eorum genera in Cyrenaica regione, 

 . . . alii irenaceorum genere pungentibus pilis ; id. x. 186 

 Aegyptiis rauribus durus pilus sicut irenaceis ; cf. Ael. xv. 

 26 ; Hesych. s. ixivos. 



" The triple breeds are doubtless those of A. 503 a 16 ivia 

 S^ tCiv t^ifiwv eTrau.(poT(pi^€L ttjv <pv(nv tcj) t avdpJnrif) Kai rots 

 Terpdiroffiv, olov TridijKOi kolI Kij(ioi Kai KvvoKe(pa\oi. iffTi 5' 6 /xev 

 KTJ^Oi irLdriKOS ix*^" ovpdv, Kai oi KvvoKf(pa\oi 5i rriu avT-ijv Ix^k''' 

 fjLop<prji' Tols iriOi^Kois, ir\r]v fiei^oyes t dai Kai lax^P'^'^P'^'- '^"^ to 

 vpoawra ^x'^"'''^^ Kvvoubearepa, in 5e dypiwrtpd re to. fidi) Kai 

 Toi/i odovTai Ix*"^'''"' Kwoeideffrepovi Kai iax^'poripovs. They thus 

 correspond to our Ape, Monkey, Baboon, and vid-qKos is 

 prob. the Barbary Ape (Strab. 8-27), Macacus 7hmj«; the 

 KTj^os a Cercointhecus ; the KwoKftpaXos the Cynocephalu^ 

 haviadryds OT Arabian Baboon ; cf. Plin. viii. 215, xi. -2^; 

 Ael. V. 7, xvii. -25 etc. ; Solin. xxvii. 56. 



* Ael. V. 26 fufxriX&TaTov iariv 6 itldyiK6s ^i^ov ; Solin. I.e. 

 non sine ingenio aemulandi. 



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