HALIEUTICA, III. 607-623 



and are gotten free from trouble, turn again " and 

 in their anger fix their teeth in the net ; and it 

 enters into their mouths and holds fast the close-set 

 teeth within. 



The Dentex '' travel in separate bands, like 

 companies of soldiers. When a man lets down a 

 hook for them, they stand aloof and all bend sidelong 

 looks on one another and are un^\•illing to approach. 

 But when one leaps forth from another rank and 

 s\%'iftly seizes the bait, then also one of them takes 

 courage in his heart and draws nigh to the hook and 

 is haled in. The Dentex, eyeing one another and 

 delighting in their banquet, rejoice even while they 

 are being caught, and they \ie with one another as to 

 which shall die first, like children exulting in their 

 sports. 



The breed of Tunnies " comes from the spacious 

 Ocean, and they travel into the regions of our sea "* 

 when they lust after the frenzy of mating in spring. 

 First the Iberians who plume themselves upon their 



571 a 11 6x(vo:'Ta.i S' oi dvvvoi . . . irepi t'ov 'E\a0T;/3o\ttD»'a 

 <f>divovTa. [about middle of March], TiKTovcri 5e irfpl roi' ' EKaro/x- 

 ^iwva. apxoj^vov [about middle of June] ; 598 a 26 dvyvioes 

 Kai rri\afiv5ei Kai &fuai eij rby IlovToif efi^dWoviri tov iapos Kai 

 dtpi'^ovaiv. 



** i.e., they come from the Atlantic into the Mediterranean 

 on the way to their spawning-grounds in the Euxine. Cf. 

 Theodorid. ap. Athen. 302 c dvwoi re 8ioLaTpT)ijovTi Ta^iipwv 

 Spo/xov, i.e. the Straits of Gibraltar, rbv VaSeipaiov -iropdfiof 

 Piut. Sert. viii. ; c/. Plin. iii. 7+ in eo maria nuncupantur, 

 unde inrumpit. Atlanticum, ab aliis magnum, qua intrat. 

 Porthmos a Graetis, a nobis Gaditanum fretum. For 

 Gadeira = Gades cf. Plin. iv. 1-20 Poeni Gadir (appellant); 

 Strabo 169 ff; Pind. X. iv. 69: fr. 256; Dion. P. 63 d<p' 

 iaxepov QKeavoto \ ?v6a re /cat ffTrjXai [Pillars of Hercules] 

 rf pi T€pfi.a<riy HpaKXfjos | iffraxriu, ^70 davfia, irap' iaxo-TouivTO. 

 Tdbeipa; ibid. 11 ; 451 ff. 



