324 ^LIANI DE ANIMAL. 



Mneuts munt, itim<p externm taurfts contrk mu^ 

 giensfuroreque eUtm incurrere cupiens cotra ϊλη•• 

 rum deo charum errauityi^^ in perfe^ru arhorum 

 ramos incidens cornihm retentm efliCtt Mneuis H- 

 liHS latuo cdpite confodiens interfecit ipfum : quo 

 faolo Bocchoris yeyecmdia confufm efti^ ipfum 

 odermt ^epptij. 



De dclphinorura intelledu & prudcntia. 



C Α ρ V τ XII. 



aVkm yehemeti delphmi muficjc amore te* 

 eantur^i^uimque iidmirahiU ddifocis can-• 

 tumjiudio concitentur>fermone (^^ litertA multo^ 

 rum loH^ lateque peruagdtum eji : qukm item ho* 

 minum amiintesfmt^cum alij pleriquefcripferurjt» 

 tum nos atite explicmimmmunc iam de inteUigen' 

 diprudentid dicere non (dienum efl* Simulenim yt 

 in retU dclphintio incidityflatim primo quideqme'•' 

 te 0^ liherc mcLnctyneque omninofugere meminit: 

 fed0^ epuUtur,!^ aLiosfecum captos depafciwr, 

 ς^ Unqmm huic condi(\um e^etconuimum ^ ex 

 ijs exfatHratur : deindc cumfe extrahi atque ad 

 littm appyopmquare tnteWmt? dentihm Ucerato 

 retheferuitute Liheratur. Idmjiquiindopifcatores 

 poifeaquam captiui delphini nares hplofcgem iun• 

 co traiecermt ? quodam ohfequio atque induhenua 

 eumex poteftute idcirco dimittantjferuttuteq', lihe 

 renhyt hacnotionis nou mufta ifi tterum capia^ 

 tur,apeniora dct i?idida>fe alus cdptum i^ferua» 



tum 



