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oAkol TTOVAVTTOoon' ovh* aorraKol ou8e irdyovpoL' 

 iravpot, [xev SeA^tve?, aKthvorepoi Se koI avrol 61( 

 KrjTclrjs yeverjs kol a/CTySee? evvepiidovTai,. 

 TovvcKev L^dvaL Ketvo TreAei Kexo-pidixevov vhatp 

 €K7TayXcos KOI TToAAov eTnaTTevSovGL veeadac. 

 areXXovrai 8' aytia rravTes o/xiAaSoj/, aAAo^ev aAAos' 

 els €V dyeLpofxevoL, fxia 8e crc^tat Traat KeXevdos 61J 

 TTopLTTT] re pLTTTj TC /cttt au TTaXtvoaTLfjios opixiq. 

 QprjiKtov 8' avuoucrt Boo? Hopov aloX6(f)vXoL 

 eaixoL Be^pvKLTjv re irape^ dXa /cat ard/xa ndvToi; 

 CTTeti'oi' djxeL^opievoL hoXi^ov dpofxov 'A/x^irpirr^s'. 

 COS 8' or' (Xtt' At^toTTotv re /cat AlyvTrroLO podojv 62( 

 vifjLTTerrjs yepdvcov x^po? ep^eraL rjepocficovajv, 

 "ArXavros vi^devra Trayov /cat ;;(et/xa (f)vyovaaf, 



" A. 606 a 10 ei* /i^c r(^ IIoj'Tifj of^re ra ^taXct/cta 7/j'eTat of^re 

 ra offTpcLKoSep^a el fii] iv tkti totois oXlya. Cf. Plin. ix. 52 ; 

 Ael. xvii. 10; Athen. 317 f ^v de rt^ irepi tQv Kark rdirovi 

 5ia<pop!Jov 6 Qeocppaaros TroXi^jroSas ov ylvecrOai (prjciv irepl 

 'KW-qcnrovTov. xpvxpo- yo.p V daXaaaa avTij Kal fjTTov aX/xvpa, 

 TaOra 5' dacpSrepa iroXi/j-ia TroXtjirodi ; E. Forbes, N.H. of the 

 European Seas, p. 203, " The deficiencies in the Blacic Sea 

 fauna are remarkable. All those classes of Mollusca which, 

 as we have seen, are but poorly represented in the Eastern 

 Mediterranean as compared with the Western, are either 

 here altogether wanting, or are of rarest occurrence, such 

 as Cephalopods, Pteropods, and Nudibranchs. Echino- 

 derms and Zoophytes are absent. The composition of the 

 water is inimical to all these forms." 



* irbpov ijyovv rbv 'EWi)(ttovtov schol., but the reference 

 can hardly be other than to the strait of Byzantium (Con- 

 stantinople) which connects the Propontis (Sea of Marmora) 

 with the Euxine (Black Sea) and is regularly called the 

 Thracian Bosporus : Strabo 125 eKdiSwai S' avr-q (r; Matc<>rts 

 Xi/xfij) iJ.kv els lldvTov Kara rbv Ki/iMfp"fOJ' KaXovfievov ^dcnropov 

 (Strait of Kertch), ofros 5^ Kara rbv Opg.Kiov et'y ttjv npoirovrida' 

 TO yap Bv^afTiaKdv aTOfia ovtw KaXovai Qpq.Ki.ov BocrTopov, 8 

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