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But now that we have sung the tribes of horned 

 wild beasts, Bulls and Stags and splendid Broad-horns 

 and Gazelles, of the Oryx and beautiful lorcus and 

 others whose heads are armed above, come now, O 

 goddess, let us tell of the saw-toothed " company of 

 flesh-eating'' beasts and the tusked races. 



First of all to the Lion let us dedicate the glorious 

 lav. The Curetes were the nurses of the infant Zeus, 

 the mighty son of Cronus, what time Rhea concealed 

 his birth and carried away the newly-born child 

 from Cronus, his sire implacable, and placed him in 

 the vales of Crete. And when the son*' of Uranus 

 beheld the lust}' young child he transformed the 

 first glorious guardians of Zeus and in vengeance 

 made the Curetes wild beasts. And since by the 



natim coeiintes, ne contrario occursu atterantur (A. P. A. 

 661 b 21), ut serpentibus, piscibus, canibus ; continui, ut 

 horaini, equo ; exserti, ut apro, hippopotamo, elephanto. . . . 

 Null] exserti quibus serrati. The carcharodonts are car- 

 nivorous and have sharp, saw-like, cutting cheek teeth ; 

 the chauliodonts have flat-crowned cheek teeth, adapted for 

 crushing or grinding. 



' A. 594 a 25 twv 5e TerpairoSuiv koX ^(pordKuv to. fiiv Aypta 

 Kal Kapxo-poSovTa xavTO. ffapKcxpdya. 



e i.e. Cronus. Cf. CalHra. H. i., Diod. v. 65, Verg. G. 

 iv. 151. 



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