Sirenis tnanus et coflaa 41 3 



Pifcesenira dari, quihumanam pracfeferancftguram, cxcra celi 

 jaftum eft; qui cananc cancuque naucas allicianc, poecicam fa- 

 bulam olec. Sicuci enim incerrapluresbeluas, formam excer- 

 Dam hominis, geftusque sefcrences inveniri dacumeft,icainO 

 ceano monftrahujusmodifufpicari, a vero diffonum non judi- 

 camus. Plinius (a;)incer cencum feptuaginca fex genera anima- 

 liumomnium in mari vivencium Tricones, Nereides,ec bominei 

 qui marini vocancur, enumeracecinlib. 9»cap. j. Au£tores,in 

 quic, habeoin equeftri ordinc fplendcnccs, yifumab his in Ga« 

 dicano oceano Marinum bominem , coco corpore abfoluca fimi- 

 licudine, afcendere navigia nodiurnis cemporibus, ftarimquede- 

 gravari, quas infederic, parccs, cc (i diucius permaneat, eciarn 

 mcrgi, De Tricone ibidem Tiberio Principi nunciavicOIyftip- 

 pcnenfium Legacio ob id mifla, vifum audicumque in quodam 

 fpecu concha canencem Txiconem , qpa nofcicur forma, dequo* 

 ccVirgilius:- 



Frons homin\spraefert> in pifcetn definif' alkttif, 

 Hacc fi omnia vera non funt, non camen omnia falfa, ho- 

 mines nempe marinos ia mari vifos, non vecufti folum acvi,- 

 fed omnium fere aecacum fcripcores memoriae tradiderunr, 

 Triconcm defcribic AElianus (b)ec Alexanderab Alcxandf o, nec 

 nonPaufanias unum ex his fe Romae vidiiTe ceftacur; caprce fpccie 

 comofo,uc ranis paluftribuseciacncolore,nedifcernicamencapil^ 

 lus a capillo poffec, fcd corpore fquamofo,forma veluci fquacinae^ 

 bronchiis fub aures, nafo hominis, ore ampliore, dedtibus feri^ 

 nis, oculis glauctei manibusi digicis, ec unguibus conchularura 

 teftis fimilibus, cauda fubcusalvum, vice pedum, ut Delphino; 

 Ronddecius pifcis monacKi icouem, ec defcripcionem do-> 

 nat(c) qui fua aecace in Norvegia, roari procellofo, capcus eft: 

 Bacerqiie Kircherus (d) pifcem capi aflferic, quera vocac Antbra* 



Rffiji $omor~ 



(3) Hift. nat. lib. 32^0, iti 



(b) Cap.ij.Lib. i3.Anim» (c)Lib.ifi.cap*ao. (d) Art. ma. 

 gnecLib.j.p.L 



