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iyxptfiilfr) Xayovcaaiv, 6 fxev Xvro, KaTTueae S' aurco? 



aSpavlrjs ^advv vttvov, dfMr])(^avL'rjaL Trehrjdels' 

 rj Se dooJs dvopovae Kal ov Kpanrvr] rrep eovaa, 

 yqdocrvvr), t,co6v Se KareadUi taa davovri. 

 TToXXaKL Kal Kara Aatr/xa /xer' l-)(dvaLv dvridaaaa 

 vrjxojxevoLS Kpanrvrjv p.ev eTreLyofxevajv a^daev opfMrjv 

 iyyvs eTnipavaaaa kol eaovp^evovs iTTeSrjcrev 

 karav S auaAeot /cat dfn^j^avoL, ovre KeXevdcov 

 SvafiopoL ovre <f>vyrjs iJ.e[Mvrjp,€voi,- rj 8e puevovcra 

 ovbev dpivvop,evovs KaraSaivxrrac ouS' dtovras. 

 otov 8 6p(j>vaioiaiv iv elScoXoLatv oveipiov 

 avSpos drvliOfxevoLo /cat te/xevoto ^e'^ea^at 

 dpa)aK€i p.kv Kpahirj, rd Se yovvara 7TaXXop,€VOLO 

 daT€pi(f>'r]s dire Beapos eTreLyopevoco ^apvvei, 

 Toirjv yvLOTreSrjv re^vdl^crai Ixdvm vdpKT). 



BaTpa;^o? av vcodrjs p.ev o/xtDs" /cat piaXdaKos Ix^dg, 

 <* Horn. 11. xxii. 199 (of Achilles and Hector) cos 5' ev 

 6t>€ip(fi ov Svvarai (peiyovra 5iu}Keiv oih' &p' 6 rbv Mvarai. 

 vTro(f>€vyeiy oGO' 6 SuhKeLv, cf. Verg. A. xii. 908 Ac velut in 

 somnis, oculos ubi languida pressit | Nocte quies, nequid- 

 quam avidos extendere cursus | Velle videraur et in mediis 

 conatibus aegri | Siiccidimus. 



* Lophius piscatoi'lus L. , M.G. (jAiffKa at Chalcis, 

 crKXe/xiroO and ^arpaxo^papo at Patras (Apost. p. 10). Fr. 

 Loup de raer, Diable, Crapaud de mer, etc. In this country 

 Angler, Sea-devil, etc. It is not infrequently cast ashore in 

 Scotland, especially on the E. coast. The attention of the 

 present writer was called (by his son J. L. R. M.) to a fine 

 specimen near Largo in Fife, April 1927, where it lay amid 

 a crowd of Lump-fish, Cyclopterus lumpus, hen-paidle and 

 cock-paidle (Scott, Antiquary c. xi.); cf. St. John, N.H. in 

 Moray, p. 210; A. 540 b 18, 620 b 11 ff. ^arpaxov tov aXUa ; 

 De gen. 749a 23, etc.; Ael. ix. 24; Athen. 286b, 330a; 

 Plin. ix. 78 ranae, 143 nee minor soUertia ranae quae in 

 mari piscatrix vocatur. Eminentia sub oculis cornicula 

 turbato limo exerit, adsultantibus pisciculis retrahens, donee 

 tarn prope accedant ut adsiliat ; Ov. Hal. 126 moUes tergore 



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