HALIEUTICA, I. 412-435 



what lo\ing-kindness, although thou hast marked 

 out and divided the bright sky and the air and the 

 fluid water and earth, mother of all, and established 

 them apart each from the other, yet hast thou bound 

 them all one to another in a bond of amit}' that may 

 not be broken and set them perforce under a conrunon 

 yoke not to be removed I For neither is the sky 

 without air nor the air vvithout water nor is the 

 water sundered from the earth, but they inhere 

 each in the other, and all travel one path and revolve 

 in one cycle of change. Therefore also they pledge 

 one another in the common race of the amphibians ; " 

 of whom some come up from the sea to the land ; 

 others again go doym from the air to consort vWth 

 the sea ; to vdt, the light Gulls * and the plaintive 

 tribes of the Kingfisher '^ and the strong rapacious 

 Sea-eagle,** and whatsoever others there be that 

 fish and seek their prey in the water. Others again, 

 though they are dwellers in the sea, plough the air ; 

 to wit, the Calamaries * and the race of Sea-hawks ^ 

 and the Swallow '^ of the deep. These, when they 

 fear a mightier fish at hand, leap from the sea and 

 fly in the air. But while the Calamaries ply the "wing 

 high and far — a bird you would think you were seeing, 

 not a fish, when they set themselves in shoals to fly 

 — the Swallows keep a lower path and the Hawks 



Probably Exocoetus roUtans Cuv. {E. exsiliens Bloch). 

 Plin. ix. 82 volat hirundo, sane perquam similis volucri 

 hirundini, item milvus ; Ov. Hal. 95 nigro corpore milvi. 



» iJacfylopteru^ roUtans, Cuv. (Trigla voUtans L.), the 

 Flying Gurnard, M.G. x^'^'^oi'o^npo (Apost. p. 11). A. 

 535 b 26 04 KT^vfs drav (pepuvrai a.irep€Lb6fi€vm ti^ i'yp<^ 5 KaXovai 

 ■KfT€ffdai poi^ovffi, Kai ai x*^'^oi'es at OaXdmai bp-oiw^' Kai yap 

 a{rrai -wiTovrai furiupoi, ovx arrSfievai rijs ^oXotttjs ; Marc. S. 

 w/ci'T^reta xf^'Swf. 



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