OPPIAN 



€K 8 dXos is TTpoxpas avavri-)(eraL' eyx^Xve? Se 

 e/c TToraficbv TrXaraficbcriv evLXpiixTTrovat daXdacrqs . 



Werpai 8 dpL(f)iaXoL TToXveihees' at fxkv eacri 

 (jiVKeai, jJLvhaXeaL, Trepl 8e /xi'ta ttoXXo. 7T€(f>VK€' 

 ras rjrot, TrepKcu Kat touAtSes" a/x^t re )(dvvoi 

 <{)€p^ovrai aaXiraL r€ fJLcrd a<f>iaLV aloXovojTOL 

 /cat Ktp^Aat paSti/at /cat (fjuKihes ovs 9*^ dXcrjes 

 dvSpos eTTOivvpiirjv drjXv(f)povos rjvhd^avTO. 



"AAAat 8e -^daixaXal ijjapadcoSeos dy\i, daXdcraiqs 

 XcTTpdSes, a? KLppis T€ crvaivd re /cat ^aaiXiaKOL 

 iv 8e fJivXoL rpiyXris re poSoxpoa (f>vXa vefMovrai. 



"AAAat 8' au TTOtTycrtv iTrL)(Xooi vypd fxeTCOTra 



^ &s 0' Mss. and schol. 



« H. i. 520 n. ; cf. A. 569 a 6. 



* Either Perca fuviatilis — " on le trouve dans les affluents 

 de I'Alphee" Apost. p. 12 — a fresh-water fish (Auson. 

 MoseU. 115 Nee te. . . . perca, silebo | Amnigenos inter 

 pisces dignande marinis) which sometimes enters salt 

 water (Plin. xxxii. 145 communes amni tantum ac mari . . . 

 percae) — as generally in Aristotle (A. 568 a 20, etc.), or 

 Serranus scriba, M.G. iripKa (Apost. p. 12), as apparently 

 in A. 599 b 8, where it is classed among "rock fishes," oi 

 irerpaioi, as it is in Galen, De aliment. facuU. iii. 28, Plin. 

 ix. 57 percae et saxatiles omnes. Marc. S. 16 includes 

 iripKai among marine fishes. Cf. Ov. Hal. 1 12 ; Athen. 

 319 b-c, 450 c. " H. ii. 434 n. 



"* Aristotle's x^^^V (x^''''") 'S either Serranus cabrilla or 

 N. scriha (Fam. Percidae, Gen. Serranus), the former still 

 known in Greece as x'^^o^- Marc. S. 33. The genus 

 Serranus is hermaphrodite as was known to Aristotle : 

 A. 538 a 21, 567 a 27, De gen. 755 b 21, 760 a9; Plin. ix. 

 56, xxxii. 153 ; Ov. Hal. 107 et ex se | Concipiens channe, 

 gemino fraudata parente ; Athen. 319 b, 327 f. 



» H. iii. 414 n. For " spangled " ef. Arist. ap. Athen. 321 e 

 Tr6\uypafi/j.os Kal epvdp6ypaiJ,fj.os. For habitat cf. A. 598 a 19 

 ylvovTai . . , iv raii \ifj,i>o0aXaTTiais iroWol twv Ix&vwv, olov 

 ffd'KTrai. 



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