HALIEUTICA, I. 132-141 



grasses have for tenant the Sargue " and the Sciaena,* 

 the Dory,* and the Crow-fish,'* named from its dusky- 

 colour, and the Parrot-^vrasse/ which alone among all 

 the voiceless ^ fishes utters a liquid note ' and alone 

 rejects its food back into its mouth, and feasts'* on 

 it a second time, throwing up its food even as sheep 

 and goats.' 



Those rocks again which abound in Clams ^ or 

 Limpets ^ and in which there are chambers and 

 abodes for fish to enter — on these abide the Braize ^ 

 and the shameless Wild Braize *" and the Cercums *• 

 and the gluttonous and baleful Muraena " and the 



53o b 1+ ff., where the <jKapo% is not mentioned, cf. Ael. x. II ; 

 Plin. xi. 267. 



* i.e. chews the cud: A. 591 b 22 boKct Si tGiv IxOvwv 6 

 KoKoi'/jLevos ffKOLpos !J.T)pvKa^eiv wffreo to. reTpdiroda fxbvoi. Cf. 

 A. 508 b 12; P. A. 675a 3; Athen. 319 f; Ael. ii. 54; 

 Antig. 73 ; Plin. ix. 62 solus piscium dicitur rurainare ; Ov. 

 Hal. 119 ut scarus epastas solus qui ruminat escas. 



* nrfKa, Kleinvieh, Sheep and Goats (Horn. Od. ix. 184- firiX', 

 6iit Tf /cat alyfs) as opp. to Kine ; Horn. II. xviii. 524 fxriXa . . . 

 Kai fKiKas /3oDj, Jl. v. 556 ^oas Kot i(pia /u^Xa; Find. P. iv. 148 

 /jLrjXd T€ . . . /cat ^ou'v ^afSas dyfKa?. Cf. to /SXt/x'^to Ael. ii. 

 54. Here merely as typical Ruminants. 



* XVf-V is generic for certain species of bivalves : Hices. 

 ap. Athen. 87 b; Plin. xxxii. 147; Galen, op. eit. iii. 3S 

 6crTpfd re /cat xvf^^^- From A. 547 b 13 at X"*?"*' • • . if tols 

 d/xfubSeffi Xafi^dvovffi rrjv avcrracriv it is suggested that Venus- 

 shells ( Veneraceae) are especially meant. 



* Patella rtdgata and allied species. Cf. Athen. 85 c-86 f. 

 ' C. ii. 391 n. 



"* Only here. Schol. dypi6<f>aypoi' diu^lipaypoi Sid to Ktve'iffdai 



TOX^WS. 



" Schol. K€pKovpoc KoiT^ovpivai (bob-tailed); Ov. Hal. 102 

 Cercurusque ferox scopulorum fine moratus; Plin. xxxii. 

 152 cercurum in scopulis viventem; Hesych. *. KepKovpos' 

 elSos rXolov Kai ixOvi. Not identified. 



* Muraena helena L., the Murry, M.G. fffiipva, a(j.vpva 

 (Apost. p. 26). 



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