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it swims above the waves of Amphitrite, straightway 

 it turns over and sails like a man skilled in sailing a 

 boat. Two feet it stretches aloft by way of rigging 

 and between these runs like a sail a fine membrane 

 which is stretched by the ^\^nd ; but underneath two 

 feet touching the water, like rudders, guide and 

 direct house and ship and fish. But when it fears 

 some evil hard at hand, no longer does it trust the 

 winds in its flight, but gathers in all its tackle, sails 

 and rudders, and receives the full flood within and 

 is weighed down and sunk by the rush of water. 

 Ah ! whosoever first invented ships, the chariots of 

 the sea, whether it was some god that devised them 

 or whether some daring mortal first boasted to have 

 crossed the wave, surely it was when he had seen 

 that voyaging of a fish that he framed a like work 

 in wood, spreading from the forestays those parts 

 to catch the wind and those behind to control the 

 ship. 



The Sea-monsters " mighty of limb and huge, the 

 wonders of the sea, heavy with strength invincible, 

 a terror for the eyes to behold and ever armed with 

 deadly rage — many of these there be that roam the 

 spacious seas, where are the unmapped prospects of 

 Poseidon, but few of them come nigh the shore, those 

 only whose weight the beaches can bear and whom 

 the salt water does not fail. Among these are the 

 terrible Lion ^ and the truculent Hammer-head " 



irdpdaXii, tpvaaXos, irprjiTrLS, fj.d\dTj, Kpi6i, vaiva, Suid. *. ktjtos 

 omits vaiva ; Phil. 85 omits vaiva and /xaXdr]. Cf. Plin. ix. 2 S. 

 * Not identified. Ael. x\i. 18 (the sea round Taprobane) 

 dfiaxov Ti irXTjdos Kal ixdv<i)v /cat ktjtQv Tpe(pfiv (pad, Kai rain-a 

 fifvroi Kai Xeovriav ^x^'-" 'ff'/xi^iis *fat irapoaXeioi' /cat Xvkuv /cat 

 KpiQv. The X^wv OaXdffffios of Ael. xiv. 9 seems to be a 

 Crustacean. « H. v. 37 n. 



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