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wings save the Eagle. Even the Indian Beast," 

 dark of hide and of tremendous weight, men make 

 to bow to overwhelming force and under the yoke 

 set him to do the patient hauhng labour of the mule. 

 And the huge Sea-monsters that are bred in the 

 habitations of Poseidon are, I declare, no whit 

 meaner than the ravening children of the land, but 

 both in strength and size the dauntless terrors of the 

 sea excel. There is upon the mainland the breed of 

 Tortoises * which know no valour nor hurt : but the 

 Tortoise "= of the sea no man shall confidently con- 

 front amid the waves. There are fierce Dogs upon 

 the dry land : but not one could vie in shamelessness 

 with the Dogs of the sea.'* Dread is the bite of the 

 Leopard of the land * but that of the sea Leopard ^ 

 is more terrible. Hyenas ^ walk upon the dry land, 

 but those amid the waves ^ are deadlier far. The 

 Ram of the shepherds is a gentle beast, but he 

 who approaches the Rams of the sea ' shall not find 

 them kindly to encounter. What Boar *•" wields such 



<* Dog-fishes, H. i. 373 n. 

 « C. iii. 63 n. 

 ' Not certainly identified. 

 » C. iii. 2«3 n. 



* WTiat animal is intended is not known. 



• Generally identified with Orca t/lmllator, the Grampus 

 or Killer Whale, the aries of Plin. ix. 10 arietes candore 

 tantura cornibus adsimulatis ; ibid. 145 grassatur aries ut 

 latro, etnunc grandiorum naviuin in salo stantiura occultatus 

 umbra si quem nandi voluptas invitet expectat, nunc elato 

 extra aquam capite piscantivira cumbas speculatur occultus- 

 que adnatans mergit. Cf. xxxii. 144; Ael. xv. 2 6 dpfnjy 

 Kpibs Xei'Atijc TO fUTUTOv TaivioLV ^x*' Trepidiovoav . . . rpcos bk 

 dyj\m, lis 01 aXtKTpvovfs to. KdWata, oiTd) toi (tai ovToi vro rg S^fyt/ 

 rif>Tr)fji€vov% -rXoKafiovt (xeu 



' C iii. 364. For x^o'^'^s (here = (cdxpos) cf. Horn. 11. ix. 

 539 'x\ovvijv aiv iypiov aypioSovra. 



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