The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 6 (of 6)Pliny, the Elder
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The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 6 (of 6)
Pliny, the Elder
Natural history -- Pre-Linnean works
To the sea only, belong also the acipenser,[464] the dorade,[465]
the asellus,[466] the acharne,[467] the aphye,[468] the alopex,[469]
the eel,[470] the araneus,[471] the boca,[472] the batia,[473] the
bacchus,[474] the batrachus,[475] the belonæ,[476] known to us as
“aculeati,”[477] the balanus,[478] the corvus,[479] the citharus, the
least esteemed of all the turbots, the chalcis,[480] the cobio,[481]
the callarias,[482] which would belong to the genus of the aselli[483]
were it not smaller; the colias,[484] otherwise known as the fish of
Parium[485] or of Sexita,[486] this last from a place of that name
in Bætica its native region, the smallest, too, of the lacerti;[487]
the colias of the Mæotis, the next smallest of the lacerti; the
cybium,[488] (the name given, when cut into pieces, to the pelamis[489]
which returns at the end of forty days from the Euxine to the Palus
Mæotis); the cordyla[490]—which is also a small pelamis, so called
at the time when it enters the Euxine from the Palus Mæotis—the
cantharus,[491] the callionymus[492] or uranoscopus, the cinædus, the
only[493] fish that is of a yellow colour; the cnide, known to us as
the sea-nettle;[494] the different kinds of crabs,[495] the striated
chemæ,[496] the smooth chemæ, the chemæ belonging to the genus of
pelorides,[497] all differing in the variety of their colours and
in the roundness of the shells; the chemæ glycymarides,[498] still
larger than the pelorides; the coluthia or coryphia;[499] the various
kinds of shellfish, among which we find the pearl oysters,[500] the
cochleæ,[501] (belonging to which class are the pentadactyli,[502]) the
helices,[503] by some known as actinophori, the spokes[504] on whose
shells are used for musical purposes;[505] and, in addition to these,
the round cochleæ, the shells of which are used in measuring oil, as
also the sea-cucumber,[506] the cynopos,[507] the cammarus,[508] and
the cynosdexia.[509]
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