HALIEUTICA, I. 43&-456 



fly close to the very sea, grazing the surface of the 

 water, seeming, to behold, as if they swam at once 

 and flew. 



These are the city-states, as it were, among fishes, 

 these the various communities of the sea-wandering 

 race. And of these some roam all together in their 

 various tribes, like flocks of sheep or like armies, 

 and these are called shoahng fishes " ; others again 

 move in files ; others like platoons or sections of 

 ten * ; another goes on his oa^ti course all alone " and 

 apart from others ; yet others travel in pairs " ; 

 while some again remain at home '^ in their own lairs. 



In winter « all dread exceedingly the terrible 

 eddies of the storm-winds and the billows of the 

 e\il-sounding sea itself: for beyond all else the 

 fishy tribes abhor their beloved sea when it rages. 

 Then do some with their fins scrape the sand ^ 

 together and skulk like cowards beneath it, others 

 creep below the rocks ^ where they huddle together, 

 others flee down to the nether depths of the deepest * 

 seas ; for those seas neither roll overmuch nor are 

 stirred to the bottom by the winds and no blast 

 penetrates the nether foundation of the sea ; and 



' A. 610 b 7 ivid 4ffTiv ov fiovov dyeXaia dWa Kal tri/firya. 



"* (iriSTifiTjTiKd opp. to iKTOTriariKd A. 488 a 13. 



' vc. 446-462 are paraphrased Ael. ix. 57. Cf. A. 599 b 2 

 (puiKovcTL Si TToWoi Kal Tuiy ixdi'uv . . . tov x^'M^fos ; Plin. ix. 

 57 Praegelidam hiemem omnes sentiunt . . . itaque his 

 mensibus iacent speluncis conditi. 



^ A. 599 b 26 (p(xj\fi de to. fiev iv t^ i/J-f^V ; 537 a 25 oi 5^ 

 ■jrXaTetj ey t-§ d/x,u<j;. 



" A. 537 a 23 to. 5i wXetora Kadevdovfft rijs yiji fj rrft ififiov ^ 

 \idov rivbi ixofievoi iv rip ^vOip rj dvoKfH/\f/<WTes vrd -rirpav ff 

 diva. iavTOvs. 



* A. 599 b 8 ^wXoOcri 5^ Kal oi Ovvvoi tov x*'M'2''os iv ro'is 

 Pa$i<riv. 



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