HALIEUTICA, I. 109-119 



the Smaris " and the Blenny ^ and the Spams " and 

 both sorts of Bogue ^ and whatsoever others love to 

 feed on sea-weed. 



The Grey Mullets * — Cestreus and Cephalus — the 

 most righteous ^ race of the briny sea, and the 

 Basse" and the bold Amia,'» the Chremes,* the 

 Pelamyd/ the Conger,^" and the fish which men call 

 Olisthus ^ — these always dwell in the sea where it 

 neighbours rivers or lakes, where the sweet water 

 ceases from the brine, and where much allu\'ial silt 

 is gathered, drawn from the land by the edd}ing 

 current. There they feed on pleasant food and 

 fatten on the sweet brine. The Basse does not fail 

 even from the rivers themselves but swims up out 



vovouiTiv (V Toit x^'MiSo-t;' oi Ixo^T'ts \iOov €V TTf Ke(pa\y, oTov 

 Xp6fJJ-s, Xd^pa^, CKiaiva, (pdypos. Cf. Plin. Lx. 57 Praegelidam 

 hiemem omnes sentiunt, sed maxime qui lapidem in capite 

 habere existimantur, ut lupi, chrorais, sciaena, phagri ; 

 Athen. 305 d 'Apio-ToreXijs . . . (prjai' . . . ra fiev \L6oK€<pa\a 

 u)s Kpf/jLvs; Plin. xxxii. 153 (among fishes mentioned by 

 Ovid) chromim qui nidificet in aquis ; Ov. Hal. 121 

 immunda chrorais ; Hesych. s. xpefivs' 6 ovicrKOT IxOvs ; s. 

 Xphfuv eiSos ixOios ; Ael. xv. 1 1 incidentally mentions 

 XP^f^V^ as having a large beard {yeveiou), while" in ix. 7 he 

 mentions the otohth and acute hearing of xP<JA"s- Aristotle's 

 XP^fMis is identified by J. Miiller, etc., with Sciaena aquila 

 Cuv., which "porte le nom vulg. fivXoKoiri et Kpa^ios a 

 Chalcis" (Apost, p. 13). Bussemaker takes xp^/jltjs to be 

 one of the Cod-familv (Gadidae). 



' IL iv. 504- n. 



* Conger rulqarig, M.G. noifyypi, 8p6yya at Missolonghi 

 (Apost. p. 26). 



' Schol. 6\iadov' yXiffxpoi yap icmv yXaveou, i.e. the yXdvis 

 of A. 621 a 21, etc., Silurxis (/lanis, M.G. y\av6% (Apost. p. 24). 

 It is a fresh-water fish but is given among marine fishes by 

 Marc. S. 11 and Plin. xxxii. 149, just as Oppian, H. i. 101 

 and 592 includes the Carp among marine fishes. Gesner 

 p. 742 suggests the Lamprey. 



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