HALI-EUTICA, I. 120-131 



of the sea into the estuaries ; while the Eels " come 

 from the rivers and draw to the flat reefs of the sea. 



The sea-girt rocks are of many sorts. Some are 

 wet and covered vrith seaweed and about them 

 grows abundant moss. About these feed the Perch ^ 

 and the Rainbow-wTasse " and the Channus ■* and 

 withal the spangled Saupe * and the slender Thrush- 

 ^^Tasse ^ and the Phycis ^ and those which fishermen 

 have nicknamed from the name of an effeminate 

 man .3 



Other rocks are low-lying beside the sandy sea and 

 rough ; about these dwell the Cirrhis ^ and the Sea- 

 swine * and the Basiliscus ^ and withal the Mylus ^ 

 and the rosy tribes of the Red Mullet. 



Other rocks again whose wet faces are green with 



f H. iv. 173 n. 



' Introduction, p. 1. * Introd. p. liii. 



* Schol. vffKai (used again to interpret vaiva II. i. 37^) ^ 

 cvAkiov f) ffvaiva, which suggests a Flatfish. Hesych. *. 

 ffi'dpiov ^oiryXiaffffov. Cf. Du Cange, Gloss. Gr. s. o-iaKiou and 

 *. (ri>o|. Epicharm. ap. Athen. 326 e couples vaivLdes, 

 ^o&y\<i}ff<Toi, KiOapos. 



* Schol. BaffiXiffKOi' ffKipidia. On H. i. 370 the schol. uses 

 ^a<n\ia-Ko$ to interpret TpTjcTn, on H. i. 59-2 to interpret 

 oxiVicos. Bussemaker gives Clupea alosa L. , the Shad. 



* Schol. ^lv\o^ • ^ivXaKoiria, yui'Xo/coiroi. which points to one of 

 the Sciaenklae, /uuXokottos being in M.G. Sciaena aqitila Cuv. 

 (Apost. p. 13). Corvina nif/ra Cuv., Bik. p. 81. Athen. 

 308 e Et'^i'5rj/Lios 5' iv t<^ jrept rapixo>v rbv KopaKtvov <pr}aiv inrb 

 iroWQiv ffairep8r]v irpoffayopfveffdai . . . on Se /cat TrXartirraKOS 

 KaXeirai 6 (TawepSrjs [we are not here concerned with the 

 freshwater (xairepoii of A. 608 a 2], Kaddirtp /cot 6 KopaKivos, 

 naptJi4vwv <(>T]<riv ; 118 C tovs Se irpocra-yopevofievovs (py](rl {Awpiuv) 

 fjUfWoi's vrb fiiv tlvwv KoKeiddai dyvorridia, i'lrb 5e rivuiv irXari- 

 (XTCiKovs 6vTai TOVS avTous. , . . oi p.kv oZ'v /xei^oves aOrCov 

 ovopA^ovrai xXaTttrro/cot, ot 5e fi-iariv exovres i]\iKiav /xvWol, oi 

 de jSoiot Toh p-eyedeffiv ayvtirriSia. Bussemaker makes fJLvXos 

 Sciaena cirrhosa. 



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