HALIEUTICA, V. 35-58 



strength as doth the invincible Lanina " ? What 

 valour burns in the heart of the Lion to be likened 

 to that of the dread Hammer-head ? * Before the 

 dread-eyed Seal <= the maned Bears <* on the land 

 tremble and, when they meet them in battle, they 

 are vanquished. Such are the beasts which have 

 their business in the sea. But notwithstanding even 

 for them the dauntless race of men has devised 

 grievous "woe, and they perish at the hands of fisher- 

 men, when these set themselves to do battle with 

 the Sea-monsters. The manner of hunting these 

 with its heavy labour I will tell. And do ye hearken 

 graciously, O kings, Olympian bulwarks of the earth. 

 The Sea-monsters that are nurtured in the midst 

 of the seas are very many in number and of exceeding 

 size. And not often do they come up out of the 

 brine, but by reason of their heaviness they keep 

 the bottom of the sea below. And they rave for 

 food with unceasing frenzy, being always anhungered 

 and never abating the gluttony of their terrible 

 maw : for what food shall be sufficient to fill the 

 void of their bellv or enough to satisfy and give a 

 respite to their insatiable jaws ? Moreover, they 

 themselves also destroy one another, the mightier 

 in valour slaying the weaker, and one for the other 

 is food and feast. Often too they bring terror to 

 ships when they meet them in the Iberian sea ' in 

 the West, where chiefly, leaving the infinite water 

 of the neighbouring Ocean,^ they roll upon their way, 



* Zygaena malleus, M.G. fi'^atvo, a large and fierce Shark, 

 common in the Gulf of Messenia (Apost. p. 4). Cf. A. 

 566 b 9 tQv uaKpQv , . . ^{'"/aiva, 



' H. i. 686 ff. 



* C. iii. 139 n. 



* //. iii. 6-23 n. ' Atlantic. 



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