HALIEUTICA, I. 259-280 



Two * fishes whose limbs are fenced with hard coats 

 swim in the gulfs of the sea ; to ^it, the Spiny Cray- 

 fish * and the Lobster.* Both these dwell among the 

 rocks and among the rocks they feed. The Lobster 

 again holds in his heart a love exceeding and un- 

 speakable for his own lair and he never leaves it 

 willingly, but if one drag him away by force and 

 carry him elsewhere far away and let him go again 

 in the sea, in no long time he returns to his o%\ti cleft 

 eagerly, and will not choose a strange retreat nor 

 does he heed any other rock but seeks the home that 

 he left and his native haunts and his feeding-ground 

 in the brine which fed him before, and leaves not the 

 sea from which seafaring fishermen estranged him. 

 Thus even to the swimming tribes their o^^ti house 

 and their native sea and the home place where they 

 were bom instil in their hearts a sweet delight, and 

 it is not to mortal men only that their fatherland is 

 dearest of all ; and there is nothing more painful 

 or more terrible then when a man perforce Hves the 

 grievous life of an exile from his native land, a 

 stranger among ahens bearing the yoke of dishonour. 



In that kind are also the wandering Crab <* and the 



see H. j. 638 n.l appellantur, dein contecta crustis tenuibus 

 [ = Crustaceans], postrerao testis conclusa duris [ = Testa- 

 ceans]. Cf. Athen. 106 c ; Ael. xi. 37 ; Galen, De aliment, 

 fac. m. 34 ; A. 490 b 10 ff. 



* Palinurus vulgaris, the Spiny Lobster or Sea Cravfish : 

 A. 525 a 32 ff. ; Athen. 104 c-105 d ; Marc. S. 34 Kapa^oi 

 oKpLOfis. In Latin writers it is usually locusta (Plin. ix. 95 

 Locustae crusta fragili muniuntur), sometimes carabus 

 (PHn. ix. 97). 



* Homarus t-ulgar'ts. A. 525 a 3-2 f.; Athen. l.e.% Plin. 

 I.e. ; Marc. S. 31 a.ara.Kol ijvKipoms. 



•* Decapoda hrachyura in general. For different species, 

 A. 525 b 3 ff. ; Plin. ix. 97. 



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