Chap. 84.] AI^"IMALS WHICH IJ^JURE STRAlS-aEHS, ETC. 353 
Spain namely, and the Balearic isles. In Cyrene, the frogs 
were formerly dumb, and this species still exists, although 
croaking ones were carried over there from the continent. 
At the present day, even, the frogs in the island of Seriphos 
are dumb ; but when they are carried to other places, they 
croak ; the same thing is also said to have taken place at 
Sicandrus, a lake of Thessaly.^^ In Italy, the bite of the 
shrew-mouse^^ is venomous ; an animal which is not to be found 
in any region beyond the Apennines. In whatever country 
it exists, it always dies immediately if it goes across the rut 
made by a wheel. Upon Olympus, a mountain of Mace- 
donia, there are no wolves, nor yet in the isle of Crete.^^ In 
this island there are neither foxes, nor bears, nor, indeed, any 
kind of baneful animal, with the exception of the phalangium, 
a species of spider, of which I shall speak in its appropriate 
place. It is a thing still more remarkable, that in this island 
there are no stags, except in the district of Cydon the same 
is the case with the wild boar, the woodcock, and the hedge- 
hog. In Africa, there are neither wild boars, stags, deer, nor 
bears. 
CHAP. 84, (59.) ANIMALS WHICH INJURE STRANGERS ONLY, AS 
ALSO ANIMALS WHICH INJURE THE NATIVES OE THE COUNTRY 
ONLY, AND WHERE THEY ARE EOUND. 
Besides this, there are certain animals, which are harmless 
to the natives of the country, but destroy strangers such are 
58 JElian, B. ii. c. 37, gives the same account of the frogs of Seriphos 
and the lake of Thessaly, but gives the name of Pierus to the lake.— B. 
59 " Mus araneiis ; the ^ shrew-mouse/ " according to Cuvier, La musa- 
raigne n'est pas venimeuse. II s'en faut beaucoup qu^elle n'existe pas au 
nord des Apermins; et elle ne perit point passe qu'elle a traverse une 
orniere, quoique souvent elle puisse y etre ecrasee. C'est un des quadrupedes 
que Ton tue le plus aisement par un coup leger.'' Ajasson, vol. vi. p. 
468.— B. 
60 iElian, B. iii. c. 32, gives the same account, which he professes to have 
taken from Theophi:astus. — B. 
61 This is also stated by ^lian. 
62 B. xi. c. 23, and B. xxix. c. 27.— B. 
63 See B. iv. c. 20. 
6* ^'Attagense the commentators have suspected some inaccuracy with 
respect to this word, as we have no other remarks on birds in this part of 
Pliny's work ; Lemaire, vol. iii. pp. 567, 568.— B. 
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