HALIEUTICA, IV. 302-323 



and put in the midst thereof the lead," and tow 

 them from the boat. The Poulpe, when he remarks 

 it, is not unheeding but rushes to embrace his 

 branchy comrades. And not even when he is being 

 haled to capture does he relax the bonds of desire,^ 

 till he is ^^"ithin the boat, nor even while he perishes 

 does he hate the ohve. 



The Sargues have their hearts possessed by affec- 

 tion for Goats.'' Goats they yearn for and they 

 rejoice exceedingly in the mountain-dwelling beasts, 

 even though they belong themselves to the sea. 

 Surely it is a marvel beyond expectation that 

 mountain-crags and the flashing sea should give birth 

 to tribes that are of one mind together. For when the 

 goatherds bring their bleating flocks to the shore, to 

 bathe in the eddying waves at noontide, at the 

 season when the hot Olympian star <* arises, then the 

 Sargues, hearing the bleating on the shore and the 

 deep murmur of the herds, rush all together in haste, 

 sluggish though they be, and leap joyfully on the 

 terraces by the sea and fawn upon the horned 

 company and hck them and crowd about them with 

 many a gambol ; and amazement seizes the herds- 

 men that learn it for the first time. The goats 

 receive the friendly choir not unwillingly and the 



' Ael. i. 23 <t>i\ov(Ti 54 irus twv aXbrfwv oT"yas lax^P^^t ^^'' yovv 

 vXritriov t^s tjoj'Oj vefiofiivwv t) <jKia. fitds fj deiT^pas iv r^ OaXaTTT) 

 <f>avy, oi Se dfffiivur irpocrviovai. Kal ivairrjduxTiv ws r/Sofifvoi, roi 

 ■Kpo<ja.-,pa.ffd(u tQv aiyuiv irodovcriv i£aW6,ueyoi kt\. 



** Sirius. Olympian =: in Olympus = in the sky. Schol. 

 oXi'H-irioi ovpdvioi. A common use in late, especially Latin 

 poets : Verg. E. v. 56 Candidus insuetum miratur limen 

 Olympi Sub pedibusque videt nubes et sidera Daphnis; 

 G. i. 4oO (sol) emenso cum iara decedit Olympo ; Aen. i. 374 

 Ante diem clauso componet Vesper Olympo ; vi. 579 Quantus 

 ad aetherium caeli suspectus Olympum. 



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