HALIEUTICA, I. 244-258 



The Pilchard" again and the Shad* and the 

 Abramis '^ move in shoals, now in one path of the 

 sea, now in another, round rocks or in the open sea, 

 and they also run to the long shores, ever changing 

 to a strange path Uke wanderers. 



The range of the Anthias ^ is most famihar to the 

 deep rocks ; yet no wise do they always dwell among 

 these, but wander everywhere as they are bidden 

 by their jaws, their belly and their gluttonous desire 

 insatiate of food ; for beyond others a voracious 

 passion drives those fishes, albeit the space of their 

 mouth is toothless. Four mighty tribes of the 

 Anthias inhabit the sea, the yellow, the white, and, 

 a third breed, the black ; others men call Euopus 

 and Aulopus, because they have a circular dark brow 

 ringed above their eyes. 



like xaXf's and rpixis. Athen. 328 b OpuraQv Si fiefivrp-ai 'Apiaro- 

 r4\r]s ev ti^ irepi ^t^uiv Kai ix&vuv ev tovtois' " fiSvina (? /xaiva) 

 dpiffffa, iyKpaffixoKos, fisfi^pas, KopaKivos, epvdpivoi, rpixis " ; 

 328 f tQv di Xeyo/j-evuv iad' Sri •^Serat opx'H'^ft Kai ifSy 

 iv ■''P'X'*) '^"■^ CLKOvaaaa duaTnjS^ 6/c ttjs daXdaff-rjs, cf. Plut. ^tor. 

 961 e where the same is said of the dpiffffa : /cat tt^v dpiffffav 

 q.S6vT<i)v Kai KpoToi'VTwv avaSveffOai Kai irpoUvaL Xeyovffiv. Per- 

 haps the Shad, Alosa vulgaris, which is anadromous (Athen. 

 3:^8 e \ij3pitj}v 8' iv Tif Trepi ixOvwv Kai ttj^ iroraaias nifj.vijTai 

 dpiffffrjs Kai Tr\v rpixioa rpixiav dvoud^ei ; Auson. Mosell. 137 

 Stridentesque focis, obsonia plebis, alausas) or the nearly 

 allied Sardinella aurifa, M.G. dpiffffa, (ppiffffa (Apost. p. 24). 

 The schol. dpiffffai Svo efSTj ixGif^v oi rpixo-ioi Kai Irepov ofioiov 

 ffK6fi^p(ii fi fUKporepov rather suggests the Twaite Shad {Alosa 

 Hntd) and the larger Allis Shad {A. vulgaris). 



" Mentioned among Nile fishes Athen. 31-2 b (along with 

 dpiffffa). Salted Abramis (aSpauiSia) are mentioned Xenocr. 

 De aliment. 36. Schemseddin Mohammed, an Arabic writer 

 of XVI. cent. , gives aherm'is as the old name for modern houri 

 = Mugil c«/>Aa/jw(Grey Mullet) which was salted and exported 

 from Egj-pt. Schneider's Artedi Synanymia piscium, p. 322. 



■* Introduction p. liii. 



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