HALIEUTICA, I. 639-64^ 



limbs are bloodless and boneless," and those tribes 

 that are covered \\ith close-set scales or armed with 

 scutes,'' are all aUke oviparous " ; but from the fierce 

 Dog-fish '^ and the Eagle-ray * and all the tribes that 

 are called Selachians ^ and from the kingly Dolphins " 

 which lord it among fishes and from the ox-eyed 

 Seal * spring children who straightway from birth are 

 like their parents. 



Now all the viviparous denizens of the sea love and 

 cherish their young but diviner than the Dolphin is 

 nothing yet created ; for indeed they were afore- 

 time men and Hved in cities along with mortals, but 



** Kijuv is here either generic, as in H. i. 373, or, if specific, 

 is as unidentifiable as in A. 566 a 30 fF. ol nev oZv yaXeoi Kai oi 

 yaXfoiLSfh, olov dXwTn?^ Kai kvqjv [the only case in Aristotle 

 of Ki'ojv in sing, in connexion with Dog-fish] Kai oi xXareTj 



iX^ljeS . . . j^UXtTOKOUffLV (JoTOKT]<TaVT€S. 



* Myliobatis aquila, M.G. dtTos. A. 540 b 18. 



' i.e. cartilaginous fishes, the Sharks and Rays. A. 511 a 5 

 KoXeirai Be <re\axoi 6 div airovv 6v Kai ^pdyxi-a ^X*"' t'^oroKov •p, 

 Cf. Hesych. *. o-eXdxiOj'. Aristotle's Selachians are (1) 

 Trpo,u7)Kri (A. 505 a 5) or yaXeusd-r;, Sharks and Dog-fishes ; 

 aKaifdias, oKwirr]^ dorepiay, 7a\e6j o Xetoy, Kvoif, aKvXia, (2) TrXar^a 

 Kai K€pKo<p6pa (A. 489 b 31, 540 b 8), the Rjiys ; drroy. Saris, 

 ^droi, ^OLS, \duia, XetOjSaros, vdpKij, pivo^aros' rpvydiiy. Among 

 the Selachians he includes also ^drpaxos (see //. ii. 86 n.) and 

 pivr] (see H. i. 742 n.). In saying that the Selachians are 

 viviparous Oppian is following Aristotle, who makes ^ujotokov 

 part of his definition of aiXaxos (see above). Cf. A. 505 b 3 

 TO. 5e fffXdxv TrdvTa ^iporoKel ttXtjv ^arpdxov ; 564 b 12 ^(fioroKet 

 S^ TO, (reXaxv trpoTepov (^OTOK-qaavra ev aiirols Kai eKTpi(f>ovauv iv 

 avToh itKtjv ^arpdxov; ]Je gen. 754 a 23 rd 5k KaXov^ifva ueXdxv 

 tQv IxOi'i^" €v avToh p.kv c^'oroKei reXeiov ipdi' l^o) Sk ^(fOTOKfi, ir\r]y 

 eifdj du KaXovci ^drpaxov' ovroi de (fOTOKei dvpa^e reXaov t^bv 

 fiovos; Plin. ix. 78 cum ceteri pisces ova pariant, hoc genus 

 (sc. cartilaginea = (reXaxT?) solum ut ea quae cete appellant 

 animal parit excepta quam ranam vocant. 



» A. 504 b 21, etc. 



» A. 489 a 35, etc. 



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