Next to these we have the sea-dragon,[510] a fish which, according to some, is altogether distinct from the dracunculus,[511] and resembles the gerricula in appearance, it having on the gills a stickle which points towards the tail and inflicts a wound like that of the scorpion[512] when the fish is handled—the erythinus,[513] the echeneïs,[514] the sea-urchin,[515] the sea-elephant, a black kind of crayfish, with four forked legs, in addition to two arms with double joints, and furnished, each of them, with a pair of claws, indented at the edge; the faber,[516] also, or zæus, the glauciscus,[517] the glanis,[518] the gonger,[519] the gerres,[520] the galeos,[521] the garos,[522] the hippos,[523] the hippuros,[524] the hirundo,[525] the halipleumon,[526] the hippocampus,[527] the hepar,[528] the ictinus[529] and the iulis.[530] There are various kinds also of lacerti,[531] the springing loligo,[532] the crayfish,[533] the lantern-fish,[534] the lepas,[535] the larinus, the sea-hare,[536] and the sea-lion,[537] with arms like those of the crab, and in the other parts of the body like the cray-fish. We have the surmullet[538] also, the sea black-bird,[539] highly esteemed among the rock-fish; the mullet,[540] the melanurus,[541] the mæna,[542] the mæotis,[543] the muræna,[544] the mys,[545] the mitulus,[546] the myiscus,[547] the murex,[548] the oculata,[549] the ophidion,[550] the oyster,[551] the otia,[552] the orcynus—the largest of all the pelamides[553] and one that never returns to the Palus Mæotis, like the tritomus[554] in appearance, and best when old—the orbis,[555] the orthagoriscus,[556] the phager,[557] the phycis[558] a rock-fish, the pelamis,[559] (the largest kind of which is called “apolectum,”[560] and is tougher than the tritomus) the sea-pig,[561] the phthir,[562] the sea-sparrow,[563] the pastinaca,[564] the several varieties of the polyp,[565] the scallop,[566] which is larger and more swarthy in summer than at other times, and the most esteemed of which are those of Mitylene,[567] Tyndaris,[568] Salonæ,[569] Altinum,[570] the island of Chios, and Alexandria in Egypt; the small scallop,[571] the purple,[572] the pegris,[573] the pinna,[574] the pinnotheres,[575] the rhine[576] or squalus of the Latins, the turbot,[577] the scarus,[578] a fish which holds the first rank at the present day; the sole,[579] the sargus,[580] the squilla,[581] the sarda[582]—such being the name of an elongated pelamis[583] which comes from the Ocean; the scomber,[584] the salpa,[585] the sorus,[586] the scorpæna,[587] the sea-scorpion,[588] the solas,[589] the sciæna,[590] the sciadeus,[591] the scolopendra,[592] the smyrus,[593] the sæpia,[594] the strombus,[595] the solen,[596] otherwise known as the aulos, donax, onyx or dactylus; the spondylus,[597] the smaris,[598] the starfish,[599] and the sponges.[600] There is the sea-thrush[601] also, famous among the rock-fish, the thynnis,[602] the thranis, by some