HALIEUTICA, III. Ut-155 



The swift Amia " and the Fox-sharks," when they 

 are hooked, straightway hasten upward to forestall 

 the fisher and speedily bite through with their teeth 

 the middle of the line or the extreme hairs. There- 

 fore for them the fishermen forge a longer socket on 

 the hook, as a protection against their teeth. 



The Cramp-fish,<^ moreover, forgets not its cunning 

 in the pain of being struck, but straining in its agony 

 it puts its flanks against the line, and straightway 

 through the horse-hair and through the rod'' runs 

 the pain which gives the fish its name * and lights 

 in the right hand of the fisher ; and often the rod 

 and the fishing-tackle escape from his palm. Such 

 icy numbness straightway settles in his hand. 



egerant, deinde resorbent. At vulpes marinae sirnili in 

 periculo gluttiunt ampUus usque ad infirma lineae qua facile 

 praerodant ; Ael. V.H. i. 5 (^ aXw-r-rj^ rj ffaXaTTia) avedope Kal 

 airtKfipe Tr)v bpiukv Kal vrjxfrai a^'dis ; Antig. 4-9 raJ Si KaXovfiiyas 

 dXwxeKttj, drav aladwvTai ori, to dyKiffrpov KaTaw{irijbKa<nv, 

 avaSpafj.ov(ras avwdev rijy 6pfj.i3.s diroTpwyeiv. But Ael. ^.A. ix. 

 12 ^ yap ov TrpoaeLffi tQ ayKicrTpui rrjv dpxv'' ^ KaTain.ovtja irapa- 

 XprjfJ-a eaiT^f to evrbi /j.€TeK5vffa l<TTp€\f/€v l^w, uxrirep oPv x'-"''^""- 

 TO aOifia aveXi^acra, Kal tovtou dijTov Tbv Tpbirov i^fuicraTo Tb 

 iyKKTrpov ; Plut. Mor, 977 b t; 5' dX^iTTjf ov xoXXd/cu /tei' 

 dyKi(TTp<f) trpoffuffiv dXXa (fievyei rbv bbXov, aXovaa S' fiidvs 

 e/crpexerai ' irecpvKe yap 5t' einoviav Kal vypbrriTa fiera^aXXeiv to 

 (rQfj.a Kal <TTp^(p(iv, wffTt tCjv (vtos eVros yevojuivuiv diroxtTTfiy t6 

 iyKiffTpov. 



' H. ii. 56 n. 



* Ael. ix. l-t ef res irpoffdxpaiTo rrjs cdpArrjj 6ti Tb €k tov ovbfiaTOs 

 wddos TT]i> Xf 'P** airrov KaTaXan^dvti, tovto Kai irai,5dpiov wv -fiKovaa 

 Trii fjirp-pbs Xeyovcrris iroXXaKis, co<I>Cl)v 5e dvSpwv eirv66fn}v 5ti Kal 

 TOV SiKTvov kv (^ TedrjpaTaL et tis Tpoffd^airo vapxg. irdvTtiis. 

 Cf. Plut. Mor. 978 b-c ; Athen. 3U c. 



* i.e. vdpKi], cramp: cf. Ael. I.e. and i. 36 6 Ix^v^ V vdpKij 

 Srrov B.P Kal Tpo(Td\prp-ai Tb i^ avrfiz Svo/xa fSuxi re Kal vapKav 

 iiroirjcrev ; Athen. 31 -t b ij 5i icX^crtj avTris Kal Tap' 'OfiT^pifi 

 [II. viii. 338] •• vdpKTqae 5e x*'P ^''■' Kapiri^." 



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