HALIEUTICA, I. 623-638 



race of the feeble Pygmies " : as they fly in ordered 

 ranks * their broad swarms shadow the air and keep 

 unbroken line ; even so in that season those myriad- 

 tribed phalanxes of the sea plough the great waves of 

 the Euxine ; and the sea is full to overflowing and 

 rough with the beating of many fins, till eagerly they 

 win rest from their long journey and their spawning. 

 But when the term of autumn '^ passes, they bethink 

 them of their homeward way, since chillier ^ than all 

 other is the winter that rages on that eddying sea ; 

 for it is not deep offshore * but is easily buffeted 

 about by the winds which beat upon it violent 

 and deadly. Wherefore they slip away from the 

 Amazonian mere ' and ^^•ith their young travel home 

 again, and scatter over the sea, each tribe to the 

 place where they are to feed. 



Now those which are called Molluscs," whose 



great ultimate estuary of the rivers which drain one-half of 

 the European area." 



* Tr]\e;jadTii seems to be modelled on dyx^^C'^v^' For 

 relative depths of different seas rf. A. Meteor. 3o4 a 19 /cai 

 TTJs fifv MatwTtSoj 6 IIojtoj {^advTfpos), tovtov 5e 6 Aiyatos, 

 Tou S' Aiyaiov 6 St/ceXt/coj' 6 3e XapdoviKos xal 6 TvppTjviKbs 

 (iadvraToi TravTwv. 



* The schol. hesitate between the Euxine (Black Sea) and 

 the Ai/xi-Tj MatwTts (Sea of Azov). 



" In the Aristotelian sense, i.e. Cephalopods or Cuttles: 

 A. 523 b 1 Tfot 5e tQsv dvaifiuiv ^i^wv vwl \€kt€ov. lari hi yivi\ 

 xXeiw, Iv fuv TO tQiv Ka.\ovfj.evu)v fjLaXaKiiov ravra 5' iffrlv 6<ra 

 ivai/xa bvTO. sktos ^x^' ''o trap/cwSes, ivros 5' it ri l^f arepeov . . . 

 dtov TO Tuiv a-qiriGiv yivoi. Aristotle di\ides the avaLfxa or 

 bloodless animals (Invertebrates) into fiaXdKia (Cephalopods), 

 puiXaKOffTpaKa (Crustaceans), IvTopLa (Insects, Arachnidae, 

 Worms), cKTTpaKoSepfia (Mussels, Snails, Ascidians, Holo- 

 thurians. Actinia, Sponges). His p.a\dKia or " Molluscs " 

 are: ^oXiTaiva or SfoXis, eXeSuii'-ij, voitiXos ttoXi'toi'j (3 species), 

 ffifiria, Tevdii, TevOos. Cf. Ael. xi. 37 ; Plin. ix. 83 Mollia 

 sunt loligo, sepia, polypus et cetera generis eius. 



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