Aristotle's History of Animals: In Ten Books — Aristotle — John Shaqi
Aristotle's History of Animals: In Ten Books
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Βοῦς, Bos taurus, Ox, 5, 27, 28, 29, 30, 41, 62;
milk, 69;
dreams, 97;
lowing of the bull, 100, 112;
coition, 103;
tormented with lice, 135;
sexual desires, 161, 162;
discharges and urine of the cow, 163;
reproductive powers of bull, 168;
the castrated animal is taught to lead the herd, _ib._;
teeth, milk, and habits, _ib._;
veins in the embryo, 190;
mode of drinking, 205;
care of the ox, 206;
red cattle of Epirus, 207;
diseases, 219, 222;
the ox drinks pure water, 224;
Egyptian oxen, 226;
habits, 236;
wild oxen, B. Bubalus, 26;
one species of ox has a bone in its heart, 39;
oxen in Phrygia which can move their horns, 61;
small oxen in Phasis, 71;
oxen in Epirus, _ib._;
in Tortona, 72;
the cow brings forth at a year old, 113;
Syrian oxen, 226;
castration of the young, 278;
rumination, _ib._
Βοῦς, a cartilaginous fish, Raia cornuta, 104, 152.
Βρένθος, a sea-bird, Anas tadorna, hostile to the larus and harpa, 232;
makes its nest in hills and woody places, 244.
Βρύας, a large owl, Stryx bubo, 201.
Βρύον, algæ, both fresh-water and marine, 155, 200, 220.
Βρύσσος, an echinite, Scutella, 102.
Βωμολόχος, Corvus monedula, 248
Βὼξ, a gregarious fish, Sparus boops, 234;
contracted from Βόαξ, from the sound it makes.
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Γαλας, a kind of smooth shell-fish, mya pictorum, 82.
Γαλεὸς, a cartilaginous fish, Squalus galeus and charachias, _Strack_,
or Gadus lota, 8, 44, 49, 108, 149, 151;
uterus and ova, 150;
receives its young into itself, _ib._;
not found in the Pyrrhæan Euripus, 256.
Γαλεώδη, fish of the shark kind, 37, 40, 41;
placed under the selache, 104, 149;
the males have appendages, 104;
the uterus, 149;
galei and galeodes, 151.
Γαλῆ, weasel, martin, polecat, Mustela Faro, M. Erminea, M.
vulgaris, 20;
the wild kind hunts mice, 178;
hostile to the crow, 232;
it attacks serpents, 233;
in Poroselene, 225;
it fights with serpents, especially with those called myotheræ, 238;
its form compared with the ictis, 239;
eats birds' eggs, 232;
mode of attacking its prey, 238.
Γέρανος, crane, Ardea grus, 2, 4, 64;
coition, 102;
migrations of the male bird, 209;
they migrate after the quails, _ib._;
the fable of the stone they are said to carry, 210;
gregarious, _ib._;
migrations, leaders, prudence, 243;
they fight with each other, the number of their eggs, 245.
Γίννος, the offspring of a mule with a mare or she ass, 11;
see ἵννος.
Γλανὶς, a fresh-water fish, Silurus glanis, _Strack_, 9, 38, 40, 219;
conjoined spawn, 155:
two species, the greater and the smaller, the male watches the
spawn, _ib._;
size of the ova, 156;
diseases, 219;
unfit to eat when in spawn, the female better than the male, 229;
the male watches the young, breaks the hook with its teeth, 256.