HALIEUTICA, I. 752-772 



from the eggs and always swims beside them ; and 

 when it sees them afraid of a strange fish it opens its 

 gape and takes them into its mouth until the terror 

 has ^^^thdrawn, and then again ejects them from its 

 throat. 



Than the Tunny I deem there is no fish that dwells 

 in the brine more lawless or which exceeds it in 

 >\'ickedness of heart ; for when she has laid her eggs 

 and escaped from the grievous travail of birth, the 

 very mother that bare them devours all that she 

 can overtake : pitiless mother who devours her own 

 children while yet they are ignorant of flight and 

 hath no compassion on her brood. 



There are also those which are not produced by 

 bridal or birth — races self-created and self-made : 

 even all the Oysters," which are produced by the 

 slime itself. Of these there is no female sex nor, in 

 turn, are there any males, but all are of one nature 

 and alike. 



So also the weak race of the feeble Fry ^ are born 

 of no blood and of no parents. For when from the 

 clouds the wisdom of Zeus draws rain, fierce and 

 incontinent, upon the deep, straightway all the sea, 

 confounded by the eddying winds, hisses and foams 



A. 569 a -25 on fxev o^'v yiftTat ai'Tofiara l^'io oi'r €k fy'wv ovt' 

 f^ oxft'ay, <pa.v€pbv iK TOinwv. offa de yu^r' tforoKel ixr)T€ fa'OTOKei, 

 ■wavTo. yivfTai to. /xev iK riji i\voi to, 8' iK rijs Aufwi' Kal TTJt 

 cTiTo\afoi''(ri7S <nj-^ea>s, oiov Kai rijs a<p{-r]s 6 /caXoi'/xevos aL<(>pi>t 

 ylverai iK rfjs anfiivdovs yrjs ; 569 b 22 t; dXXij dipimj yovos ixOi'wy 

 iffrlv, e.g., KbiSins, ^aXrjpiKri, etc. ; cf. Athen. -28+ f ff., Badham, 

 Fish Tattle, p. 3.30 "This Greek epithet, aphya, 'unborn,' 

 translated into the Italian equivalent non-nati, is that 

 employed by the lazzaroni of Naples to designate young 

 anchovies, and a variety of other piccoli pesci of whose origin 

 and parentage they are uncertain " ; cf. Ael. ii. -22 ; Phil. 

 115; Poll, vi. 51 ; Hesych. #.r. and s. rpixOdSei, 



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