HALIEUTICA, I. 17g-188 



Others roam in the unmeasured seas far from the 

 dry land and companion not with the shores ; to ■wit, 

 the dashing Tunny," most excellent among fishes for 

 spring and speed, and the Sword-fish, truly named,'' 

 and the huge race of the Orcynus <^ and the Premas ^ 

 and the Cybeia * and the Coly-mackerel ^ and the 

 Scytala " and the tribes of the Hippurus.'' Among 

 these, too, is the Beauty-fish,^ truly named, a holy 

 fish ^ ; and among them dwells the Pilot-fish * which 

 sailors revere exceedingly, and they have given him 

 this name for his convoying of ships. For they 

 delight exceedingly in ships that run over the wet 



' Scomber colias, M.G. ko\i6s. " Ce poisson, sale, est tres 

 estime, on le mange surtout au raois d'aoiit. Un proverbe 

 dit : ' Chaque chose son temps, et le colios an mois 

 d'aout ' "' (Apost. p. U). A. 543 a 2, 598 a 24, b 27, 610 b 7 ; 

 Plin. xxxii. 14^5 colias sive Parianus sive Sexitaniis a patria 

 Baetica lacertorum minimi. Cf. Athen. 120 f ^ de crdpSa. 

 ■wpofffoiKe Tw KoXia liieyedfi. . . . Kpeiaffuv 5e 6 'AfjiivK\av6s kcu 

 Zjrayos 6 ^a^iravbs \ey6fifvos. 



' Schol. cr/ci'TdXai" ai d^ivai Xeyofievai XeiriSai. Not men- 

 tioned elsewhere. 



* 11. iv. 404 n. Cf. Ov. Ilal. 95 (gaudent pelago) hippuri 

 celeres. 



' H. iii. 335 n. 



' For use of this term cf. Athen. 282 c-284 e. 



* Xaucrates ductor, one of the Horse-mackerels (Caran- 

 gldae): "ce poisson partage avec certains squales le nom 

 vulg. de KovXay odea's. C'est, d'apres les pecheurs grecs, un 

 conducteur d'autres poissons " (Apost. p. 14). Cf. Athen. 

 282 ff. ; Ael. ii. 15, xv. 23 ; Plin. ix. 51 idem («c. Tunny fish) 

 saepe navigia velis euntia comitantes mira quadam dulcedine 

 per aliquot horarura spatia et passuum miiia a gubernaculis 

 spectantur, ne tridente quidera in eos saepius iacto territi. 

 Quidara eos qui hoc e thynnis faciant pompilos vocant ; id. 

 xxxii. 153 pompilum qui semper comitetur navium cursus ; 

 Ov. Hal. 100 Tuque comes ratium tractique per aequora 

 sulci I Qui semper spumas sequeris. pompile, nitentes. See 

 further H. v. 70 n. 



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