HALIEUTICA, V. 59-77 



like unto ships of twenty oars." Often ako they 

 stray and come nigh the beach where the water is 

 deep inshore '' : and there one may attack them. 



For all the great beasts of the sea, save the Dog- 

 fishes, travelkng is hea\y-Umbed and not easy. For 

 they neither see far nor do they travel over all the 

 sea, burdened as they are with their vast limbs, but 

 very tardily they roll upon their way. Wherefore 

 also ^^•ith all of them there travels a companion 

 fish, dusky to the eye and long of body and with a 

 thin tail : which conspicuously goes before to guide 

 them and show them their path in the sea ; for 

 which cause men call it the Guide." But to the 

 Whale "^ it is a companion that hath found wondrous 

 favour, as guide at once and guard ; and it easily 

 bringeth him whither he will. For that is the only 

 fish that he follows, the ever-loyal comrade of a loyal 

 friend. And it wheels about near him and close 

 by the eyes of the Whale it extends its tail, which 

 tells the monster everything— w^hether there is some 

 prey to seize or whether some evil threatens nigh, 



* Naucrates ditctor = irofnr'CKos II. i. 186 n. H. iv. 437 ff., 

 the Pilot-fish or Whale-guide, from its habit of attending on 

 Ships and " Whales " or utitt]. It is thought also to be the 

 fish referred to in A. 557 a 29 eV 5^ ry daXaTTrj rj aird Kvp-^vrji 

 Tp6s Alyinrrov (ctti wepi tov 5€\(f)iva ixdvs Sv Ka\ovcn (pdelpa 

 [Plin. xxxii. 150 phthir : " Louse "]• 8s yiverai iravruv irtoraroj 

 dia. rb dvoKaveiv Tpo(pfjs d.<pd6vov drjpevovTos rov 5e\((Hvos, para- 

 phrased Ael. ix. 7. Our present passage is paraphrased 

 Ael. ii. 13 to. k-^ttj rd ^i£7d\a 6X1701; vdPTa dfev KVvQy 

 deirai rod ijyetMovoi Kal rots d<f>da.\fj.di% (Kfivov ayerai. ecrri 5^ 

 t'X^yJ fUKpos Kai XfiTTOs, rrjv Ke<pa\r\v irpofir}Krii, arevov 5e avri^ rb 

 ovpaiof (xviJ.Ti(f>vKev ktX., and there is a picturesque account in 

 PiuL Mor. 980 f sq. 6 oi tcaXovfuvos ijyf/juhi' neyetid fxiv iarL koI 

 ffX^fiO-Ti Kw3iu>0fs ixOvoiov, ry]v 5' (TrKpafeiav bpvidi <f>pi<yffovTi. Zid 

 T7)r TpaxvTT)Ta rtji XeiriSos iouKevan Xeyerai. 



** Introduction, p. Ixvii. 



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