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1 IX, 38 | 38~Of all insects, one may 2 IX, 39 | 39~Of spiders and phalangia 3 IX, 40 | 40~So much for the spider. 4 IX, 41 | 41~Of wasps, there are two 5 IX, 42 | 42~So much for the habits of 6 IX, 43 | 43~Humble-bees produce their 7 IX, 44 | 44~As regards the disposition 8 IX, 45 | 45~The bison is found in Paeonia 9 IX, 46 | 46~Of all wild animals the 10 IX, 47 | 47~The male camel declines 11 IX, 48 | 48~Among the sea-fishes many 12 IX, 49 | 49~Just as with all animals 13 IX, 49B| 49B~A considerable number of 14 IX, 50 | 50~Some animals change their 15 VI, 18 | with the horse.~Cows go a-bulling; and so completely are they 16 v, 22 | the spring-time is late a-coming, and when there is drought 17 VI, 18 | the mare is said to go a-horsing; and the term derived from 18 v, 22 | at the time the honey is a-making. The bee carries wax and 19 IX, 40 | the king whom they have abandoned follows them, they put him 20 IX, 5 | degree in autumn, disappears, abandoning its usual resorts, apparently 21 v, 14 | breed, but the sexual desire abates. When they reach fifteen 22 v, 14 | females, the copulation is abbreviated, and the litter is comparatively 23 VII, 9 | speedy when the pain is abdominal. If the child about to be 24 VI, 2 | can keep the egg back in abeyance. A singular phenomenon is 25 v, 14 | prematurely by reason of abnormality, or is postponed by physical 26 I, 1 | hoopoe; some frequent the abodes of men, as the pigeon.~Some, 27 II, 17 | called the "enystrum" (or abomasum), larger an longer than 28 VII, 3 | the case of a male embryo aborted at the fortieth day, if 29 v, 19 | fact that gadflies most abound in the neighbourhood of 30 VI, 16 | in places where sea-weed abounds, and in rivers and marshes 31 VIII, 3 | the wren and the rook. The above-enumerated birds and the like of them 32 IX, 42 | combs, as may be often seen above-ground, and in this nest they produce 33 VII, 4 | it be formed without the above-named circumstances taking place.~ 34 VIII, 2 | holding out against any abrupt change; consequently they 35 VIII, 24| horse suffers also from abscesses. Another painful illness 36 IX, 37 | certain other fish are also absent; but of fish that are found 37 VI, 10 | disappears, and becomes absorbed within the embryo, just 38 v, 15 | strip off the shell and then abstract the bloom. For this purpose 39 v, 15 | necessity of separating them in abstracting the bloom. Fishermen are 40 III, 19 | the liquid inside them in abundance-nor again very scanty, as is 41 VI, 18 | havoc. They also state that abundancy of food has a tendency to 42 III, 19 | have the blood neither too abundant-as creatures just after drinking 43 VI, 18 | animal serves as a term of abuse applicable to such females 44 VIII, 1 | tethya (or ascidians) and the acalephae (or sea-anemones); but the 45 v, 32 | colour, and is designated the acari or mite. In books also other 46 IX, 6 | warning, lest it should accidentally bite the bird.~The tortoise, 47 v, 8 | northerly ones having been the accompaniment of the Pleiads. The halcyon 48 VI, 12 | thirty days). Its young accompany it for a considerable period; 49 VIII, 12| mimicking his gestures, the accomplice comes behind and catches 50 v, 14 | finding itself unable to accomplish the sexual commerce with 51 VII, 3 | womb, the female infant accomplishes the whole development of 52 IX, 40 | strong enough, he of his own accord breaks the lid and comes 53 I, 15 | and "left", are used in accordance with their natural sense. 54 VIII, 13| exceptional. The way of accounting for this phenomenon is that 55 VII, 3 | means assume this to be an accurate statement of fact, for there 56 v, 5 | oviparous fishes is seldom accurately observed, owing to the fact 57 VI, 12 | the day down to the sea, accustoming them by slow degrees to 58 I, 13 | termed the "socket" (or acetabulum).~The "womb" is a part peculiar 59 IX, 5 | defensive and offensive. An Achaeine stag has been caught with 60 II, 15 | deer those that are called Achainae appear to have gall in their 61 VIII, 26| warm water; when they have aches in their shoulders they 62 IV, 7 | in this respect that the achetes or chirper is provided with 63 VI, 22 | two and a half years, but achieves full sexual maturity when 64 III, 20 | portent foreshadowed the acquisition of a fortune. With some 65 IV, 8 | or gnat settles only on acrid substances and not on sweet. 66 VII, 1 | the removal of what had acted as an impediment to health 67 I, 4 | texture are homogeneous.~The active faculties, on the contrary, 68 VIII, 1 | may be divided into two acts-procreation and feeding; for on these 69 II, 10 | surface of it with remarkable acuteness. As a rule, they pass the 70 IX, 7 | below for a foundation, and adapting all to suit its own size. 71 III, 1 | later period. And I may here add, that a bull has been known 72 VI, 22 | naturally infertile; it must be added, however, that some horses 73 I, 6 | general are oviparous; the adder, an exceptional case, is 74 IV, 1 | that is to say, it has an additional something on the rachis, 75 II, 12 | species of birds are furnished additionally with spurs, but no bird 76 VI, 2 | is brooding, the eggs get addled. Wind-eggs that are called 77 III, 1 | whence is derived the word adelphos, and the other part, the 78 VII, 3 | feel somewhat rough and adherent, and if they be likewise 79 I, 1 | creatures that live in close adhesion to an external object, as 80 VIII, 28| none in the district close adjoining; and in Cephalenia there 81 IX, 1 | which is popularly termed "admiring him"-buffet him, and pluck 82 IX, 32 | lower: these devices it adopts by way of security against 83 VI, 1 | than the inferior ones. The Adrian hens are small-sized, but 84 VI, 12 | tails sometimes and set them adrift again, and by this expedient 85 VII, 4 | the other resembling the adulterous lover.~The case has also 86 VII, 6 | change in this respect with advancing age: for sometimes a husband 87 IX, 40 | hive with sweet wine. It is advisable to plant about the hives 88 VIII, 13| spawns, and winters in the Aegean. The tunny proper, the pelamys, 89 IX, 17 | pecking the bark of trees. The aegolius-owl flies by night, is seldom 90 VIII, 2 | water that is terrestrial or aerial or that derives its food 91 IX, 49B| colour and appearance, as Aeschylus has represented in the following 92 VIII, 3 | white gull, the cepphus, the aethyia, and the charadrius.~Of 93 v, 5 | the bos, the lamia, the aetos, the narce or torpedo, the 94 IV, 8 | presence of scented objects afar off, as for instance bees 95 II, 14 | a charm to bring luck in affairs of law and love. The creature 96 VIII, 24| Another painful illness afflicts them called the "barley-surfeit". 97 II, 17 | into the mouth.~All the afore-mentioned animals have a stomach, 98 IV, 2 | hairy, and on each of the aforesaid parts is a spine turned 99 VII, 1 | the breasts remain during after-life of the bulk that they then 100 VI, 24 | human species and to the after-pig or scut in swine; and as 101 III, 11 | place subsequently, the aftergrowths, and these only, shed off; 102 VI, 8 | ring-dove begins to brood in the afternoon and broods through the entire 103 VI, 18 | or dwarfed is called an afterpig or scut: such injury may 104 VI, 23 | are termed the gnomons or age-indicators.~A she-ass has been known 105 I, 1 | kind are such as act as aggressors upon others or retaliate 106 VIII, 2 | single animal pleasant and agreeable.~Animals then have been 107 IX, 29 | stories, but are not in agreement as to the instruction of 108 IX, 48 | reason they run themselves aground on dry land; at all events, 109 VII, 2 | troublesome. For women are ailing during these days; and sometimes 110 v, 9 | 9~(The aithyia, or diver, and the larus, 111 IV, 8 | open air, it has a loud and alarming resonance to creatures that 112 VI, 29 | place, by the way, where Alcibiades was assassinated-all the 113 v, 31 | to this louse-disease, as Alcman the poet and the Syrian 114 VIII, 12| bird-catchers are never on the alert for these birds during fine 115 IX, 32 | stratagem of the hunter. It alights on high places by reason 116 I, 2 | belly; the remainder of the alimentary system has a great variety 117 IX, 18 | species-for there are three in all-the white heron has handsome 118 IX, 28 | reason has the nickname of "all-the-year-round owl"; it is not sufficiently 119 I, 1 | as a proof of which it is alleged that the difficulty in detaching 120 IV, 8 | lead nowhere, like blind alleys, and in other cases lead 121 III, 1 | back, as in the pig and its allies, and that in others they 122 IV, 10 | by their lying still and allowing the glistening under-parts 123 I, 5 | centipede and the bee; but allsoever that have feet have an even 124 IV, 6 | this flesh, to which I now allude, is the same in all ascidia. 125 IX, 9 | domestication, was seen to insert an almond into a hole in a piece of 126 IX, 40 | poppies, creeping-thyme, and almond-trees. Some bee-keepers sprinkle 127 VI, 18 | breeding time they hold aloof from and quarrel with one 128 VIII, 13| instance, off the coast of Alopeconnesus; and most species of fishes 129 I, 1 | and the drepanis or (?) Alpine swift; for all these birds 130 IX, 49B| spotted: however, it never alters its note. The nightingale, 131 II, 10 | quadrupedal or is devoid of feet altogether-are furnished with a head, a 132 I, 1 | to the part involves an ambiguity, since the whole also by 133 II, 1 | Arabian, progress by an amble; and the action so called 134 VIII, 2 | the synodon or Dentex, the amia, the sea-perch, and the 135 VI, 17 | growth, for instance, of the amia-tunny is quite visible from day 136 III, 11 | thicker with age, and when the amimal gets emaciated or is growing 137 v, 22 | from the upper country to Amisus, which is deposited by bees 138 IV, 8 | it is in an imperfect and amorphous form, in other words it 139 III, 2 | degree of universality, their analogues, lymph and fibre, and, that 140 v, 22 | few kings, not because of anarchy thereby ensuing, but, as 141 IV, 1 | parts I must refer to my anatomical diagrams.~The males of all 142 III, 2 | of sight. For this reason anatomists who have carried on their 143 VII, 6 | resemble their parents or their ancestors, it sometimes happens that 144 v, 15 | straight up from its tuft of anchoring fibres in sandy and slimy 145 VI, 15 | called the encrasicholus, or anchovy. There is another fry, derived 146 VIII, 29| brought from the grave of an ancient king, which stone is put 147 v, 15 | caught at times with these animalculae upon them, some of which 148 v, 19 | also winged. From the flat animalcule that skims over the surface 149 IV, 4 | an excretion in all these animals-an excretion enveloped in a 150 VIII, 6 | pears, and cucumbers. These animals-and other animals that have 151 VIII, 6 | young, swinelike all other animals-get attenuated. So much for 152 I, 3 | alone, is common to all animals-the sense of touch. Consequently, 153 I, 15 | lies at the back, and the anklebones lie laterally, earwise. 154 VI, 2 | out, or sustain any other annoyance or disturbance, then even 155 IX, 40 | has been said, they are annoyed by all bad smells and by 156 IX, 40 | king-bee, the drone bee, the annual wasp, and, furthermore, 157 IV, 1 | straight strips, but in annular flakes; and all molluscs 158 VII, 3 | conception is prevented, some anoint that part of the womb on 159 VIII, 3 | greatly in size from one another-and the buzzard. The buzzard 160 v, 33 | young crocodile is small, answering to the egg in size, but 161 III, 12 | coast of Thrace; and in Antandria there are two rivers of 162 IX, 37 | they feed upon.~Wherever an anthias-fish is seen, there will be no 163 III, 5 | and so, as might have been anticipated, the sinews in the fish 164 III, 3 | represents in the lines:—~(Antilochus, as Thoon turned him round),~ 165 II, 1 | deer alone has a horn, or antler, hard and solid throughout. 166 III, 19 | in the nostril or at the anus, or the veins may become 167 IV, 8 | brimstone; ants, if the apertures to their dwellings be smeared 168 II, 8 | dog-like and more powerful.~Apes are hairy on the back in 169 v, 9 | the belly which is called aphareus.~ 170 v, 16 | species that is named the "aplysia" or the "unwashable", from 171 I, 1 | and are therefore called Apodes. This little bird is powerful 172 III, 2 | the penis." Diogenes of Apollonia writes thus:—~"The veins 173 IV, 4 | with the haemorrhoid or aporrhaid and all others of the like 174 VIII, 4 | alive in the shops of the apothecaries.~ 175 VIII, 28| the serpents is something appalling; sailors spin a yarn to 176 IV, 4 | often jump right out of the apparatus by means of which they are 177 IX, 49B| white wing~He greets the apparition of the Spring.~Thus twofold 178 VI, 31 | lioness has no mane, but this appendage is peculiar to the lion. 179 VI, 19 | apt to ramble. If at the appointed season the elders of the 180 IV, 1 | these arms or tentacles they apprehend their food and draw it into 181 VIII, 1 | will be the more clearly apprehended if we have regard to the 182 IV, 1 | though it were inflated. It apprehends and retains objects by means 183 IV, 2 | being thereby adapted for apprehension and constriction. Above 184 VIII, 12| autumnal equinox to avoid the approaching winter, and after the spring 185 IX, 5 | this account they have an appropriate nickname. In the third year 186 IX, 1 | mount tame elephants of approved spirit and proceed in quest 187 I, 1 | mistaken one for another. (The apus is to be seen at all seasons, 188 II, 1 | in the territory of the Arachotae, where the wild cattle also 189 IX, 19 | latter is found on Cyllene in Arcadia, and is found nowhere else. 190 v, 17 | coolness.~The so-called arctus or bear-crab lays its eggs 191 v, 16 | attachment extends over a smaller area.~It is said that the sponge 192 IX, 49B| marks his youthful days,~The argent his maturity displays;~And 193 VI, 29 | Deer Mountain, which is in Arginussa in Asia Minor-the place, 194 VIII, 19| coast of Nauplia, in the Argolid, a number of fishes have 195 IX, 37 | place.~The nautilus (or argonaut) is a poulpe or octopus, 196 VI, 15 | oviparous nor viviparous arise all from one of two sources, 197 VIII, 25| which they call "melis". It arises first in the head, and a 198 VII, 2 | owing to excessive desire, arising either from youthful impetuosity 199 III, 7 | or blade-bones, and the arm-bones connected with these, and 200 III, 7 | is found in his thigh and armbones. The bones of the lion are 201 VI, 5 | appearance in the rear of armies. However, difficult as it 202 VI, 18 | themselves with defensive armour, or in other words deliberately 203 IX, 40 | water, others smooth and arrange the combs. A bee carries 204 I, 16 | are externally visible are arranged in the way above stated, 205 IX, 41 | and managing its indoor arrangements. The so-called mother-wasps 206 IV, 8 | development were congenitally arrested; (for extending from the 207 VI, 22 | another year’s interval; after arriving at the age of four years 208 II, 1 | faculty of shooting off arrow-wise the spines that are attached 209 IV, 2 | and the squilla the middle art of the tail is spinous: 210 IV, 9 | voice; and language is the articulation of vocal sounds by the instrumentality 211 I, 4 | same by natural causes or artificial means, death ensues: further, 212 VIII, 19| kitchen vegetables, though artificially watered, derive benefit 213 IX, 39 | preeminently clever and artistic. It first weaves a thread 214 VIII, 17| emerging takes to eating arum with the view of opening 215 VIII, 22| drives the animal mad, and ary animal whatever, excepting 216 II, 17 | night-raven, (the localus,) the ascalaphus, the goose, the swan, the 217 v, 19 | worm, and the third the ascarid. These intestinal worms 218 III, 4 | left arm; only that the ascending vein in the one case is 219 IV, 6 | allude, is the same in all ascidia. And this substance is attached 220 VI, 6 | it is said in the verses ascribed to Musaeus:~That lays three, 221 IX, 1 | there are three kinds: the ash coloured, the white, and 222 III, 12 | The wings of this bird are ash-coloured at first, but as it grows 223 VIII, 28| that some crews once put ashore and saw the bones of a number 224 VIII, 5 | nibbling at the bark of the aspens that fringe the riversides. 225 IX, 6 | bites of their enemy the assailants beplaster themselves with 226 IX, 40 | condition, some of the occupants assailed a foreign hive; proving 227 IX, 1 | and so when the merlin assails the fox the raven comes 228 VI, 29 | way, where Alcibiades was assassinated-all the hinds have the ear split, 229 IV, 8 | of the smell. And it is asserted that they can at once detect 230 IV, 11 | attached, make only random assertions from not having carefully 231 VIII, 2 | would be unreasonable to assign one and the same class of 232 III, 3 | but who all alike agree in assigning the head and the brain as 233 VI, 24 | go free, but continued to assist in dragging burdens, and 234 VII, 10 | must she be able to render assistance with skilful hand, but she 235 VII, 1 | recollection of pleasure associated with former indulgence creates 236 IX, 1 | peace with one another "associates". One may go so far as to 237 VI, 35 | the island of Delos, she assumed the form of a she-wolf to 238 VIII, 2 | ways, according to their assumption of air or of water, the 239 II, 1 | are to believe Ctesias. He assures us that the Indian wild 240 III, 12 | river in the district of Assyritis in the Chalcidic Peninsula, 241 VI, 3 | after the twentieth day is ast, the chick begins to break 242 IX, 36 | other diverse kinds are the asterias, the pigeon-hawk, and the 243 VI, 37 | to the mouse are the most astonishing both for the number of the 244 IX, 49B| its cooing note, to the astonishment of such as were acquainted 245 II, 1 | Indian ass alone has an astragalus or huckle-bone; for the 246 IX, 40 | that, if a young swarm go astray, it will turn back upon 247 v, 15 | the way, of this organ are astringent. It is after the murex has 248 IX, 9 | shell of the fruit, and then ate the kernel.~ 249 v, 22 | is deposited out of the atmosphere; and as a proof of this 250 VIII, 2 | from time to time breathe atmospheric air: they breed and rear 251 IV, 11 | noticed the locality of such attachments. For no eel nor animal of 252 III, 4 | investigation is not equally attainable; for in the latter of these 253 v, 29 | 29~The attelabi or locusts lay their eggs 254 v, 19 | common-spider, and so with the attelabus or locust, the acris or 255 IX, 32 | it puts it down without attempting to carry it off at once; 256 VI, 18 | unless one be constantly attending to and thoroughly acquainted 257 v, 31 | Egypt there is a fish that attends on the dolphin, which is 258 III, 2 | living men reduced to extreme attenuation have arrived at conclusions 259 IV, 1 | at the top, and in this attitude it has its mouth at the 260 VIII, 1 | of psychical qualities or attitudes, which qualities are more 261 VI, 29 | fawn would not lead one to attribute extreme longevity to this 262 VIII, 28| difference, where it exists, is attributed to the food, as being abundant 263 IX, 50 | young, none of these male attributes propensities will come to 264 IX, 1 | not to limit the matter to audible sound, such as can differentiate 265 VIII, 18| eagle that presided over the auguries as in the act of drinking; 266 I, 17 | with in the practice of augury. For instance, in a certain 267 v, 17 | May to about the middle of August; they then lay the eggs 268 VI, 17 | occasionally in the autumn. The aulopias, which some call the anthias, 269 II, 1 | another, as is the bison (or aurochs), which is found in Paeonia 270 VI, 2 | for we have cases well authenticated where chickens of the common 271 VIII, 28| to Ctesias-no very good authority, by the way-there are no 272 IX, 13 | tips of the wings are About autumn-time it lays six or seven eggs, 273 VIII, 12| cold countries after the autumnal equinox to avoid the approaching 274 VI, 17 | Byzantines nickname the "auxids" or "growers", from their 275 VIII, 24| formal remedies are of any avail.~There is also a disease 276 IX, 1 | and the mother-bird, to avenge this wrong, flies at the 277 IX, 39 | excretion, as Democritus avers, but off their body as a 278 v, 8 | under the circumstances, averse to separation; for the intercourse 279 IV, 10 | expect in a creature suddenly awakened. Further, owing to their 280 IV, 10 | phenomena of sleeping and of awakening.~ 281 IX, 40 | three times and thereby awakes the rest; hereupon they 282 IX, 39 | upper surface; the less awkwardly formed one lies in wait 283 VI, 6 | days its talons get turned awry. It is in consequence about 284 II, 1 | breasts in the region of the axillae; and the female elephant 285 IV, 10 | also, and dogs, and oxen; aye, and sheep, and goats, and 286 v, 18 | let A represent the ovum, B and C the eyes, and D the 287 I, 15 | of "shoulderblades", the "back-bone", and, underneath on a level 288 III, 5 | to say, the epitonos or back-stay and the shoulder-sinews. 289 IX, 14 | is possibly made of the backbones of the gar-fish; for, by 290 IX, 34 | film over its eyes and sees badly, but the sea-eagle is very 291 VI, 10 | resembles the tongue of a bagpipe, and hair-like ducts are 292 IV, 8 | freely take the hook if it be baited with a piece of flesh from 293 IV, 8 | attracted by it; they also bake the octopus and bait their 294 VI, 24 | was passed forbidding any baker driving the creature away 295 IV, 11 | water, as the carp and the balagrus. This sort of fish never 296 VI, 14 | likewise. The carp, the baleros, and fishes in general push 297 VIII, 20| called the dragon. In the balerus and tilon a worm is engendered 298 IX, 44 | and not to be stanched by bandage or sponge; the treatment 299 IV, 2 | and both are curved like bandy-legs, being thereby adapted for 300 IX, 40 | the long kind, and try to banish them from the hives; if 301 IV, 8 | and most insects may be banished with burnt hart’s horn, 302 IX, 49B| lonely hills, in self-sought banishment.~Of birds, some take a dust-bath 303 III, 13 | the heart. If membrane be bared and cut asunder it will 304 v, 23 | however, not of wax, but of a bark-like filamented fibre, and the 305 IV, 10 | dogs show their dreaming by barking in their sleep. With regard 306 VIII, 2 | catch them is not flesh but barley-cake. Every fish of the mullet-kind 307 II, 5 | grinding it like so much barley-meal, and, quite apart from these, 308 VIII, 24| afflicts them called the "barley-surfeit". The are a softening of 309 IX, 4 | fondness; in proof whereof a barren mare will steal the foal 310 IX, 5 | from a sense of security based upon the possession of arms 311 IV, 8 | upon the shoal whilst yet basking at the surface if they sail 312 IX, 5 | their full size the animal basks in the sun, to mature and 313 VIII, 28| drink, die. Elsewhere also bastard-animals are born to heterogeneous 314 VIII, 6 | mud. They like to feed in batches of the same age. A pig will 315 VIII, 24| whether for drinking or for bathing purposes; and this explains 316 VIII, 21| mulberries, to give repeated warm baths, and to lance the under 317 VIII, 3 | chaffinch, the sparrow, the "batis", the green linnet, and 318 IX, 1 | pushing with his big tusks can batter down a wall, and will butt 319 IX, 40 | big ones; their wings are battered; their colour is black, 320 VI, 11 | angel-fish, however, and the batus or skate appear to pair 321 v, 14 | has a much deeper-toned bay than the hind. Moreover, 322 v, 15 | those that are found in bays are large and rough; in 323 III, 1 | white fluid, are marked BB; the penis D; the bladder 324 VI, 14 | so-called tilon spawns near to beaches in sheltered spots in shoals 325 IV, 2 | these creatures are hard and beady, and can move either to 326 VIII, 7 | vetch or bruised beans or bean-stalks. The older ones also will 327 v, 17 | The so-called arctus or bear-crab lays its eggs at about the 328 III, 11 | men are less inclined than bearded men to baldness.~The hair 329 IV, 4 | cases the hairy growths or beards, in a circular form, as 330 v, 17 | creatures out at sea, take bearings on the beach and elsewhere 331 II, 8 | parts are somewhat more beast-like in appearance. Its feet 332 IX, 36 | sticks in their hands go beating at the reeds and brushwood 333 IX, 29 | her own young owing to the beauty of the cuckoo. Personal 334 | became 335 VIII, 3 | either of them. Then come the becca-fico, the black-cap, the bull-finch, 336 | becoming 337 VI, 13 | deposits on the spawning beds are saved. If all the eggs 338 IX, 40 | hives, and also the nests of bee-eaters. Bees have fear only of 339 IX, 42 | are wasp-kings to wasps or bee-kings to bees. The anthrena-king, 340 IX, 40 | This fact is shown by the beekeepers’ attempt to remove the combs; 341 IX, 40 | flowers and rapidly gather the bees-wax with their front legs; the 342 IV, 7 | butterfly and the horned beetle. Such of them as have the 343 VI, 28 | castrated owing to an itch befalling them in early life in the 344 VI, 18 | sow-virus. This incident befalls all sows, but some of them 345 III, 12 | female after drinking it, beget black lambs, as is the case 346 III, 20 | repeated in a male of its own begetting. Such occurrences, however, 347 VI, 4 | birds, after once they have begun laying, keep on having eggs, 348 VIII, 28| are tamed down in their behaviour towards each other by extremity 349 v, 1 | in the present case it behoves us to treat of man last 350 VIII, 6 | other animals that have warm bellies-are fattened by repose. (Pigs 351 IV, 11 | kine, for the lowing and bellowing of the cow has a deeper 352 v, 18 | as young birds grow by a belly-attachment. What is the exact nature 353 IV, 2 | male it is undivided; the belly-fins in the female are large 354 v, 11 | the grey mullet, and the belone or pipe-fish; and in summer-time, 355 I, 15 | are double jointed. The bending both of the arm and of the 356 IX, 6 | their enemy the assailants beplaster themselves with mud, by 357 IX, 40 | With this material they besmear the groundwork, to provide 358 v, 24 | some similar situation, besmearing the clay with something 359 IX, 40 | bee-keepers, on seeing this, besprinkle the hive with sweet wine. 360 VI, 13 | deposited her eggs, the male besprinkles them. It is highly probable 361 VIII, 16| have their permanent abode, betake themselves thither; others, 362 IX, 1 | come up with these they bid the tame brutes to beat 363 III, 1 | small fish, each of the two bifurcated parts looks like a single 364 VIII, 13| then at the point of its bifurcation swims down southwards into 365 IV, 8 | fishes, if fish washings or bilge-water be thrown overboard, are 366 VII, 1 | by-word, the bleat of the billy-goat. Now this breaking of the 367 II, 1 | quadrupeds; for, although bipeds, they bend their legs backwards, 368 IX, 22 | where it falls a prey to the birdcatcher. Its head is big, and composed 369 VIII, 12| the night, and when the birdcatchers hear the croak of the bird 370 VIII, 18| rainy seasons are bad for birds-and so by the way is much drinking-and 371 IX, 32 | hawks, and the smallest birds-are all spoilt by the interbreeding 372 IX, 32 | be found, that all other birds-eagles, hawks, and the smallest 373 VI, 20 | occasionally for sixteen. The birth-discharge occurs simultaneously with 374 I, 7 | sinciput", developed after birth-for it is the last of all the 375 VIII, 13| fishes are found in Lake Bistonis. The coly-mackerel as a 376 IX, 1 | and the starry heron (or bittern). Of these the first mentioned 377 IV, 4 | general. Of the rest, some are bivalved and some univalved; and 378 VIII, 3 | come the becca-fico, the black-cap, the bull-finch, the robin, 379 IX, 32 | forests, and is called "the black-eagle" or "the hare-killer"; it 380 II, 11 | green like the lizard but black-spotted like the pard. This change 381 VII, 6 | daughter’s child that was a blackamoor.~As a rule the daughters 382 IX, 7 | later on, as though the blackbearded birds of the last year had 383 III, 19 | in man; and thickest and blackest in the bull and the ass, 384 IX, 15 | next to the ostrich the blackheaded tit is said by some to lay 385 v, 15 | name is derived is dark to blackness, in others it is reddish 386 III, 2 | underneath the shoulder blade and towards the hands; and 387 III, 7 | come the shoulder-bones, or blade-bones, and the arm-bones connected 388 VI, 6 | That is to say, its wings blanch, and for some days its talons 389 VII, 7 | is manifestly caused by a blast of air; for nothing is cast 390 VII, 1 | by way of by-word, the bleat of the billy-goat. Now this 391 III, 19 | with haemorrhoids, or with bleeding at the nose, and, if any 392 IX, 40 | or if there be drought or blight, then grubs are all the 393 IX, 7 | Turtle-doves and pigeons that are blinded by fanciers for use as decoys, 394 IV, 7 | stag-beetle, the cantharis or blister-beetle, and the like.~Insects have 395 IX, 45 | is undisturbed it has no blistering effect. So much for the 396 IV, 2 | hereabouts the flesh is red and blood-coloured, but is slippery to the 397 v, 19 | then black, and finally blood-red; and at this stage there 398 VIII, 11| the common fly; others are blood-suckers, such as the gadfly and 399 VI, 3 | and a membrane carrying bloody fibres now envelops the 400 VII, 1 | remarks, as plants first blossom and then seed. About the 401 VIII, 7 | into their hide, and air blown thereinto. Cattle will fatten 402 IX, 21 | lives on rocks, called the blue-bird from its colour. It is comparatively 403 IX, 19 | nowhere else. The laius, or blue-thrush, is like the black owsel, 404 VI, 20 | with old dogs black and blunted.~ 405 IV, 8 | by the surging of their boats through the water; and the 406 IX, 2 | maenis, the sea-gudgeon, the bogue, the horse-mackerel, the 407 VI, 2 | them into a sauce pan and boil them slowly over a low fire, 408 VI, 18 | time of parturition with boiled barley. Some swine give 409 v, 16 | contractile movement in windy and boisterous weather, obviously with 410 II, 17 | Fig district, near Lake Bolbe, and elsewhere, which animal 411 IV, 1 | of their bodies, like the bolbidia. There is another polypus 412 IX, 32 | the "heron-killer". It is bold enough to fly to mountains 413 VIII, 29| highlands look fiercer and bolder, as is seen in the swine 414 IV, 1 | nicknamed variously the bolitaina or the "onion," and the 415 IX, 37 | waters, with night-lines.~The bonitos swarm together when they 416 v, 9 | lay their eggs on rocks bordering on the sea, two or three 417 VI, 35 | parturition of the she-wolf that borders on the fabulous, to the 418 VIII, 27| nicknamed the teredo, or "borer", with which creature the 419 v, 30 | their eggs in fallow lands, boring a hole with the pointed 420 VII, 1 | virtuous after they have borne several children.~After 421 v, 5 | those already named, the bos, the lamia, the aetos, the 422 v, 19 | Hypanis in the Cimmerian Bosphorus, about the time of the summer 423 VIII, 15| to best advantage in the Bosporus; for the mud is there brought 424 v, 19 | winged insect named the bostrychus (or hair-curl).~Gnats grow 425 v, 1 | the way, in my treatise on Botany. So with animals, some spring 426 v, 19 | somewhat larger than a blue bottle fly, furnished with wings, 427 IX, 6 | a vessel attached to the boughs of a tree, to keep the animal 428 IX, 44 | but without leaping and bounding. This running of his is 429 v, 2 | camel is so sinewy that bow-strings are manufactured out of 430 IX, 50 | if you mutilate them in boyhood, the later-growing hair 431 I, 13 | gut-cavity.~Serving as a brace girdle to the hinder parts 432 III, 17 | are little in motion.~The brains of animals supplied with 433 IX, 1 | and all the more if it brays, it topples the eggs and 434 v, 22 | bee carries wax and bees’ bread round its legs, but vomits 435 VIII, 3 | and cannot swallow corn or bread-food even if it be put into their 436 VI, 24 | the creature away from his bread-tray. The she-mule grows old 437 I, 16 | elastic both lengthways and breadthways.~The stomach of man resembles 438 IV, 10 | dissolution or a general break-up of the system.~So much then 439 VI, 8 | through the entire night until breakfast-time of the following day; the 440 VIII, 13| shore-the synodon, the black bream, the merou, the gilthead, 441 v, 9 | looks as though the fish bred twice over. The first spawning 442 VI, 2 | are observed to inhale the breezes; they do the same if they 443 I, 7 | portion of it is termed "bregma" or "sinciput", developed 444 VI, 29 | never been verified, and the brevity of the period of gestation 445 VIII, 10| be first sprinkled with brine. Sheep will take on flesh 446 III, 11 | gradually hardening into bristle until it no longer resembles 447 IX, 50 | animals have loose faeces, and broad-chested animals vomit with comparative 448 II, 12 | is chiefly developed in broad-tongued birds. No oviparous creature 449 IX, 36 | pigeon-hawk, and the pternis; the broaded-winged hawk is called the half-buzzard; 450 VIII, 1 | from its burrow. Indeed, broadly speaking, the entire genus 451 IX, 40 | time they are constructing brood-cells. They suffer most from hunger 452 VI, 4 | in the way in which they brooded previously over the eggs. 453 IX, 40 | flowering-reed, withy, and broom. When they work at thyme, 454 IX, 5 | horns (that is to say the brow antlers), with which the 455 IX, 45 | The colour of the hair is brown-yellow; the mane reaches down to 456 VI, 21 | from hardship and to their browsing on pasture of good quality. 457 IX, 14 | it, and at the same time bruise it with your hand, it will 458 VIII, 7 | such as bitter vetch or bruised beans or bean-stalks. The 459 IX, 40 | odour, and is a cure for bruises and suppurating sores. The 460 IX, 1 | these they bid the tame brutes to beat the wild ones until 461 IV, 5 | spatangus, and the so-called bryssus, these animals are pelagic 462 VIII, 11| drinking water if it be found bubbling up clear from a spring underground.~ 463 v, 19 | timber. The orsodacna or budbane is a transformed grub; and 464 IX, 1 | popularly termed "admiring him"-buffet him, and pluck out his feathers; 465 I, 8 | have foreheads rounded or bulging out, they are quick-tempered.~ 466 VIII, 12| distress occasioned by the bulkiness of its body that the bird 467 VIII, 3 | becca-fico, the black-cap, the bull-finch, the robin, the epilais, 468 IV, 9 | swine, and sheep. (The bull-frog makes its croaking noise 469 IV, 8 | river-fish called the cottus or bullhead; this creature burrows under 470 VIII, 19| sometimes leaps over the bulwarks of a vessel and falls back 471 VI, 24 | continued to assist in dragging burdens, and would go side by side 472 VI, 2 | in the ground, by being buried in dung heaps. A story is 473 IX, 50 | unite in copulation. If you burn this twice or thrice with 474 IX, 40 | is black, and they have a burnt-up aspect. Gaudy and showy 475 II, 1 | as is the case with the bushy-tailed animals such as the horse; 476 I, 4 | heterogeneous: as, for instance, the business of preparing the food is 477 VIII, 1 | definite seasons; other animals busy themselves also in procuring 478 II, 1 | man is so fleshy as in the buttock, the thigh, and the calf; 479 IX, 41 | by the feet and let him buzz with the vibration of his 480 IX, 40 | sort of dross or residual by-product of wax; it has a pungent 481 VII, 1 | it is called, by way of by-word, the bleat of the billy-goat. 482 VI, 22 | in colour black. If any bystander gets possession of it before 483 VI, 17 | scordylae, but what the Byzantines nickname the "auxids" or " 484 v, 18 | represent the ovum, B and C the eyes, and D the sepidium, 485 v, 19 | this grub is engendered in cabbage-stalks. The cantharis comes from 486 v, 19 | cabbage is engendered the cabbageworm, and from the leek the prasocuris 487 IV, 9 | instance, some partridges cackle, and some make a shrill 488 II, 17 | the gut. Birds, then, have caeca-not all, but the greater part 489 IX, 1 | in general, prey upon the calaris, and consequently there 490 VIII, 6 | weighed when living, you may calculate that after death its flesh 491 IX, 48 | their breath, as though calculating the length of it, and then 492 v, 21 | young from the flower of the callyntrum; others assert that they 493 v, 14 | A cow has been known to calve when only a year old, and 494 III, 21 | dry for a few days before calving, and have milk all the rest 495 v, 22 | that is furnished with a calyx or cup, and from all other 496 III, 1 | into the upper part of the canal, around which lies, sheathwise, 497 v, 19 | from which grubs come new canthari. Certain winged insects 498 v, 19 | the cow or the ass. The cantharus or scarabeus rolls a piece 499 VIII, 17| coleoptera, as for instance the cantharus-beetle. They all slough after the 500 II, 17 | inside it resembles a netted cap; and the reticulum is a