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Poulpe nor Lobster nor Crab " ; Dolphins, indeed, 

 dwell there but few, and feebler even these than 

 the Sea-monster breed and harmless. Wherefore to 

 fishes that water is pleasant exceedingly and they 

 greatly haste to come to it. All together they set 

 forth in company, gathering to one place from their 

 several haunts, and all have one path, one voyage, 

 one course, even as again all have the same impulse 

 of return. And the swarms of various tribe make 

 the Thracian Ford of the Cow,^ past the Bebrj'cian 

 Sea " and the narrow mouth <* of the Pontus traversing 

 a long course of the ocean. And as when * from the 

 Ethiopians and the streams of Egypt there comes the 

 high-fl\ing ^ choir of clanging Cranes," fleeing from 

 winter and the snowy Mount of Atlas * and the weak 

 Terpo<7rd5i6»' eiTTiv. Cf. Strab. 319, 566 ; Dion. P. 140 

 QpriiKiov ffTO/ia Bociropov, 6v Trdpos 'Iw ; 'H/w/j evveffir]<nv tyrj^aro 

 iropTis eoC<ra. avvovai : Stat. T. vii. 439 Taurus init fecitqu^ 

 vadum. 



« Sea of Marmora. The Bebryces are located in Mysia 

 or eastward to Chalcedon. Dion. P. 805 Be^pvKti S' firl roTai 

 Kal ovpea Mi'criSos airji ; Strab. 541. 



•* Dion. P. 14-3 aTeivSTaTos 5r} Ketvo^ ardvTwv frXero vopdubs | 

 Twr dXXwi' 61 t' eiffl irepiKXi'ffToio daXdffffij^ ; Arr. Peripl. Eux. 

 Pont. xii. 2 koL fffn CTevoTaTov ravrrj to ffrofia roC IIovtov 

 KoKovneyoy, xad' 6ti eiV/SctXXet it tti]v UpOTrovrida. 



* Horn. //. iii. 3 ff. -qin-e irep KXayyT) yepdvwv ireXei ovpavoffi 

 xpb, I ot t' ^irei o5»' xet^tcDvo ^i'7oi' /cat d^^cn^OTOJ' iftSpo;', ; /cXoTyj 

 rat 76 tcirovTai eV '^Keavoto podwv | dv8pd<yi Ili-yfxaioi(n <f>6vov 

 Ka.1 KTJpa (pipovaai. But while Homer refers to the Southward 

 migration about October (A. 599 a -24 tov 'MaifiaKTTjpiuivos, the 

 signal for sowing, Hesiod, W. 448, Aristoph. ^^r. 710, TheocT. 

 X. 31), Oppian means the X. migration in beginning of 

 March. Morams. Jahr. p. -267; Milton, P.L. vii. 425 ff. 



' i/yf/oOev eic vf<f>(b)i> Hesiod I.e., avvvofioi veipiwy SpSfiov Eur. 

 Hel. 1488. 



' Grus clnerea, M.G. yepavot, yepdvi, and yopiWa in Attica. 

 The much rarer G. virgo is mentioned as a summer visitor in 

 the Cyclades, Erh. p. 54. » In N.W. Africa. Strabo 825. 



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