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2003 III, 17 | well on, with the view of limiting their food by curtailment 2004 v, 15 | honeycomb.~With regard to the limnostreae, or lagoon oysters, wherever 2005 IX, 44 | Homer pictures him in the line-" and glowing torches, which, 2006 II, 1 | inasmuch as he is a sort of link with the class of fishes; 2007 VI, 2 | congealing is inclined rather to liquefy. Again, the white stiffens 2008 IX, 40 | seem to take a pleasure in listening to a rattling noise; and 2009 VI, 18 | part of the womb. After littering the mother offers the foremost 2010 III, 21 | time. In women, milk of a livid colour is better than white 2011 VII, 1 | boy or girl the body is loaded with superfluous matter, 2012 v, 28 | land, but only in flat and loamy land, for the fact is they 2013 I, 11 | other part is called the "lobe"; and it is entirely composed 2014 VIII, 2 | are also differentiated locally: that is to say, some live 2015 II, 17 | duck, the night-raven, (the localus,) the ascalaphus, the goose, 2016 I, 4 | mouth, and the office of locomotion in the feet, the wings, 2017 III, 2 | the heart, but it is all lodged in the veins. In living 2018 IX, 41 | live in the interior of logs of wood. Some of them are 2019 IX, 44 | plump, curly-maned, and the long-bodied, straight maned; the latter 2020 VIII, 20| their capture, and partly by long-continued droughts. Rainy weather 2021 VIII, 28| countries. In Libya the long-horned ram is born with horns, 2022 II, 12 | tail-feathers, short in such as are long-legged and web-footed, large in 2023 IX, 50 | as well as other fish).~Long-limbed animals have loose faeces, 2024 v, 19 | instance, worms are found in long-lying snow; and snow of this description 2025 IV, 1 | teuthis, or calamary, is long-shaped, and the sepia flat-shaped; 2026 VII, 1 | former indulgence creates a longing for its repetition.~Some 2027 v, 16 | largest of all sponges are the loose-textured ones, and these are peculiarly 2028 II, 17 | is thin, and simple when loosened out. The gut-appendages 2029 IX, 42 | and after catching them lop off their heads and fly 2030 IX, 2 | found alive with its tail lopped off, and the conger with 2031 IX, 49B| general rule, birds sing most loudly and most diversely in the 2032 v, 31 | known to succumb to this louse-disease, as Alcman the poet and 2033 VIII, 13| preyed on by its own peculiar louse-parasite, but after the rising of 2034 VII, 4 | resembling the adulterous lover.~The case has also occurred 2035 IX, 37 | approach a man’s hand if it be lowered in the water; but it is 2036 IV, 11 | way, with kine, for the lowing and bellowing of the cow 2037 VIII, 29| swine of Mount Athos; for a lowland boar is no match even for 2038 VIII, 29| same results as the soft lowlands. The animals of the highlands 2039 III, 21 | milk, as Median grass or lucerne, and that especially in 2040 VIII, 26| they administer draughts of lukewarm water or dip its fodder 2041 v, 8 | Simonides the poet says:~God lulls for fourteen days the winds 2042 VII, 8 | and in the form of solid lumps, the latter in the lower 2043 IX, 39 | using a little hole for a lurking-place. Spiders can spin webs from 2044 VIII, 3 | summer, for in winter it lurks in some hole or other and 2045 VII, 1 | in those who are prone to lustfulness the voice turns into the 2046 VII, 1 | quickly in men of intemperate lusts and in women who become 2047 IX, 40 | honey are most thoroughly luted with wax. At the entry to 2048 IX, 24 | another kind of daw found in Lybia and Phrygia, which is web-footed.~ 2049 VI, 35 | effect that she confines her lying-in to within twelve particular 2050 IV, 9 | called their "voice", as the lyra or gurnard, and the sciaena ( 2051 VIII, 22| Rabies drives the animal mad, and ary animal whatever, 2052 IX, 36 | the neighbourhood of Lake Maeotis, it is said, wolves act 2053 IV, 2 | all crabs is one nicknamed Maia, a second variety is the 2054 VII, 1 | shriller than the boys’, and a maid’s flute is tuned sharper 2055 VII, 1 | Furthermore, in the case of maidens the condition of the breasts 2056 VI, 29 | months of Boedromion and Maimacterion. The period of gestation 2057 IX, 1 | crooked talons, attacks and maims the animal. And so the raven 2058 VI, 21 | in the tenth month; some maintain that they go in calf for 2059 v, 17 | said gristly formations and maintaining a bent posture, it performs 2060 IX, 32 | extensive space for its maintenance, and consequently cannot 2061 IX, 8 | place, out of which the male-birds emerge each with a hen. 2062 v, 16 | found beyond or inside Cape Malea are, respectively, comparatively 2063 IX, 40 | part of the bees and in malodorousness of the hive. Bees feed on 2064 IX, 6 | as the smaller breed of Maltese dogs. In the thickness of 2065 II, 1 | that it is savage and a man-eater.~Man sheds his teeth, and 2066 v, 22 | is considered due to its management.~In Pontus are found bees 2067 IX, 41 | inside the nest, building and managing its indoor arrangements. 2068 I, 16 | exception, among animals of the mane-and-tail species.~The brain in all 2069 IX, 44 | the long-bodied, straight maned; the latter kind is courageous, 2070 I, 6 | creatures that have bushy manes and bushy tails, such as 2071 IX, 1 | the lizard sleeps in his manger, gets into his nostril, 2072 IX, 50 | they be mutilated in early manhood, the late growths of hair 2073 VII, 7 | air, and the outflow is manifestly caused by a blast of air; 2074 II, 1 | flexures of the limb are not manifold, as some say, although they 2075 III, 5 | body, like a sketch of a mannikin; in such a way that the 2076 IV, 1 | oesophagus, extending from the mantle-cavity to the lower portion of 2077 IV, 1 | the head; thirdly, the mantle-sac, containing the internal 2078 II, 1 | with a huckle-bone. Of the many-fingered or many-toed, no single 2079 II, 17 | this is the "echinus" (or many-plies), rough inside and laminated, 2080 VI, 15 | tomb of Themistocles and at Marathon; for in these districts 2081 VI, 23 | technically spoken of as "mare-suckled". These asses, thus reared, 2082 VIII, 9 | medimni of wheat, and five mareis of wine-six cotylae going 2083 IV, 10 | their fins; indeed, some mariners assure us that they have 2084 VIII, 9 | wine-six cotylae going to the maris. An elephant has been known 2085 VI, 13 | the inhabitants of these maritime districts say that the purple 2086 VIII, 1 | which qualities are more markedly differentiated in the case 2087 VIII, 6 | can be fattened for the market in sixty days. Pig-dealers 2088 IX, 32 | in the morning until the market-hour it remains on the nest. 2089 VI, 7 | the hawk, only that the markings of the hawk are striped, 2090 III, 20 | writers that the lion is marrowless. In the bones of pigs it 2091 VI, 8 | hatched.~The nests of all marsh-birds are built in districts fenny 2092 VI, 14 | 14~Marsh-fishes and river-fishes conceive 2093 VIII, 12| steppes of Scythia to the marshlands south of Egypt where the 2094 II, 1 | Indian wild beast called the "martichoras" has a triple row of teeth 2095 VIII, 2 | the dolphin is something marvellous.~Of eels a few here and 2096 VIII, 21| treatment is to feed on mashed mulberries, to give repeated 2097 VI, 23 | mares in the open pastures, mastering them by force as the stallions 2098 IX, 7 | are born, he will take and masticate pieces of suitable food, 2099 VII, 6 | opposite sex when otherwise mated. And they are apt to change 2100 v, 22 | made from flowers, and the materials for the wax they gather 2101 VI, 29 | after a while quits one and mates with others. The breeding 2102 VIII, 24| period. The horse delights in meadows and marshes, and likes to 2103 IX, 1 | differentiate the suggested meanings of word and gesture.~In 2104 IV, 1 | rachis, and by rachis is meant the smooth surface or edge 2105 IX, 11 | ease, and is something of a mechanic. It goes by the nickname 2106 IX, 13 | penduline tit shows great mechanical skill; it has the appearance 2107 VII, 10 | what the midwives call the meconium or "poppy-juice". In colour 2108 IX, 40 | another violet, and never meddles with another flower until 2109 v, 19 | grubs found in the snows of Media are large and white; and 2110 III, 21 | pasture quenches milk, as Median grass or lucerne, and that 2111 IX, 40 | hives pear-trees, beans, Median-grass, Syrian-grass, yellow pulse, 2112 VII, 6 | conceive, save with the help of medical treatment or some other 2113 VIII, 10| summer, to the extent of one medimnus to the hundred sheep, and 2114 IX, 31 | when the mercenaries under Medius were slaughtered at Pharsalus, 2115 I, 16 | meet; the medium-sized ones meet-and this is particularly visible 2116 I, 7 | as a general rule, three meeting at a point. Instances have 2117 VIII, 2 | scarus or parrot-fish and the melanurus on sea-weed, the saupe on 2118 IX, 40 | follows: the spindle-tree, the melilot-clover, king’s-spear, myrtle, flowering-reed, 2119 VIII, 25| disease which they call "melis". It arises first in the 2120 v, 19 | and lays a thing like a melon-seed, by observing which indication 2121 III, 17 | with the selachia, by the melting of whose livers an oil is 2122 VI, 17 | for the fat evaporates and melts, while the eggs dance about 2123 v, 28 | like a membrane; in this membrane-like formation they grow on to 2124 I, 5 | the leathern-winged and membrane-winged, are as yet without a generic 2125 IX, 39 | be not hungry, it first mends any damage done and then 2126 III, 3 | veins into the so-called meninx, or membrane, which surrounds 2127 VI, 24 | assert that the she-mule menstruates by the act of voiding her 2128 III, 19 | of all female animals the menstruous discharges are the most 2129 IX, 1 | similar differentiation in the mental characteristics of the two 2130 IX, 12 | name; Homer in the Iliad mentions it in the line:~Chalcis 2131 IX, 31 | About the time when the mercenaries under Medius were slaughtered 2132 IX, 40 | These bees also kill without mercy most of their kings, and 2133 VI, 1 | places; but the bird called merops in Boeotia, alone of all 2134 VIII, 13| synodon, the black bream, the merou, the gilthead, the mullet, 2135 IX, 45 | found in Paeonia on Mount Messapium, which separates Paeonia 2136 IX, 1 | with the application of his metal prong; after this the creature 2137 v, 27 | small grubs. And these grubs metamorphose in their entirety, and not 2138 II, 1 | where a creature is said metaphorically, or by a figure of speech, 2139 III, 1 | tube or orifice, is termed metra. In all biped or quadruped 2140 IX, 6 | Weasels fight desperately with mice-catching snakes, as they both prey 2141 III, 19 | black and scarce, and in middle-aged animals its qualities are 2142 VI, 6 | the great bustard; for the middle-sized birds it extends over about 2143 VI, 10 | close to the diaphragm but middle-ways along the backbone, and 2144 v, 17 | to the outlet, but placed middleways; for at both ends, tailwards 2145 VIII, 17| silphe, and the empis or midge, and all the coleoptera, 2146 VIII, 3 | robin, the epilais, the midget-bird, and the golden-crested 2147 III, 3 | below, with the heart lying midway.~The heart in all animals 2148 I, 1 | gregarious, such as the so-called migrants, the tunny, the pelamys, 2149 VIII, 12| birds, the following are migratory-the crane, the swan, the pelican, 2150 I, 5 | the largest that dwell in milder climates, and those that 2151 IX, 41 | leaders are far larger and milder-tempered than the others. The workers 2152 IX, 40 | plant they are at work on be mildewed. In a high wind they carry 2153 VIII, 1 | gentleness or fierceness, mildness or cross temper, courage, 2154 VIII, 28| Thus, in the territory of Miletus, in one district cicadas 2155 v, 5 | discharge, in all cases, a milk-like juice. These ducts unite, 2156 III, 21 | that of the young deer.~In milk-producing animals the comparative 2157 III, 21 | each pair of teats, and the milker has to stand erect, stooping 2158 IV, 4 | those that are nicknamed "milkshells", while others are rough-shelled, 2159 VII, 10 | but later on it becomes milky, for the child takes at 2160 VIII, 12| a bird, and is a capital mimic; a bird-catcher will dance 2161 VIII, 12| it and, while the bird is mimicking his gestures, the accomplice 2162 VIII, 12| flat-tongued, and disposed to mimicry. The Indian bird, the parrot, 2163 IX, 1 | to foresee an attack; it mimics the whinnying of the horse, 2164 v, 15 | ones weigh upwards of a mina apiece. But the specimens 2165 IX, 40 | bring water to the cells and mingle it with the honey, some 2166 VI, 14 | fish. When the milt has mingled with the eggs, the resulting 2167 VI, 29 | is in Arginussa in Asia Minor-the place, by the way, where 2168 II, 14 | are land animals, a small minority, to wit the aquatic species, 2169 III, 22 | and Herodotus is under a misapprehension when he states that the 2170 | miss 2171 IX, 20 | three species. One is the misselthrush; it feeds only on mistletoe 2172 IV, 10 | sleep; for there can be no mistaking their condition of motionless 2173 IX, 20 | misselthrush; it feeds only on mistletoe and resin; it is about the 2174 IX, 40 | the bigger bees get left mistresses of the field they pass the 2175 v, 32 | designated the acari or mite. In books also other animalcules 2176 IX, 7 | way as men do, the bird mixes mud and chaff together; 2177 VI, 3 | intervenes to prevent the yolks mixing with each other, but some 2178 I, 1 | by the way, presents a mixture of the two characters, the 2179 III, 1 | the testicles are marked MM; the ducts turning back, 2180 VIII, 2 | while he keeps up a dull moaning sound corresponding to the 2181 IV, 9 | water, gives a squeak and moans in the air, but these noises 2182 VII, 9 | plainly seen to suffer but moderate inconvenience. In women, 2183 VIII, 2 | organs, are liable to immense modifications in their general configuration. 2184 IX, 11 | thrush, and other birds. They modify betimes their method of 2185 IX, 49B| deep, nor so intricately modulated, but simple; it also changes 2186 I, 16 | the largest brain, and the moistest, is that of man. Two membranes 2187 III, 20 | veins, marrow in bones other moistures in membranous structures 2188 IV, 2 | saw-shaped and those within are molar-shaped, these latter being, in 2189 VIII, 7 | smeared with hot wax, you may mold them to any shape you please, 2190 IX, 37 | the neck. So much for the mollusca.~It is also said that they 2191 IX, 1 | cleverer than the male. Of the Molossian breed of dogs, such as are 2192 IX, 45 | the Paeonians call it the monapos. It is the size of a bull, 2193 I, 6 | is wont to reckon by that monetary standard with which it is 2194 IX, 40 | of a swarm is imminent, a monotonous and quite peculiar sound 2195 VI, 3 | eighteenth was abnormal or monstrous.~ 2196 III, 11 | on some women after the monthly courses have stopped; and 2197 I, 1 | in detaching it from its moorings is increased if the movement 2198 II, 13 | fishes, but with one of skin.~Morever, with fishes furnished with 2199 III, 19 | that are not corrupt or moribund. All blood is contained 2200 VI, 17 | gilthead, the basse, the mormyrus, and in general such fish 2201 IX, 34 | one another, to secure a morsel of food or a comfortable 2202 III, 13 | stripped of its membrane mortifies.~ 2203 VIII, 29| round the wound will at once mortify. There is in India a small 2204 VI, 14 | or close to reeds or to moss. At times these fishes intertwine 2205 VIII, 27| another insect resembling the moth, called by some the "pyraustes", 2206 IX, 29 | young. Some say that the mother-cuckoo comes and devours the brood 2207 IV, 9 | other birds singing; and a mother-nightingale has been observed to give 2208 IV, 5 | are the echinometrae, or "mother-urchins", the largest in size of 2209 v, 21 | of this theory of their motherhood, they declare that the brood 2210 VIII, 17| there are doubts as to its motive for so doing, whether it 2211 IV, 6 | has no other organ whether motor or sensory, nor, as was 2212 IV, 2 | over grey-coloured, with a mottling of black. Its under or hinder 2213 VIII, 2 | way. Take a thin vessel of moulded wax, attach a cord to it, 2214 IX, 41 | sheltered spot, they take to moulding their combs, and construct 2215 IX, 49B| variable dress:-~Now a gay mountain-bird, with knightly crest,~Now 2216 VIII, 3 | size of a finch; and the mountain-finch, which resembles a finch 2217 IX, 32 | It goes by the name of "mountain-stork" or "half-eagle". It lives 2218 v, 28 | grasshoppers are found in mountainous land or in poor land, but 2219 IX, 12 | them out at sea singing in mournful strains, and have actually 2220 VI, 37 | by the way, turn up the mouse-holes by rooting with their snouts. 2221 III, 12 | Further, the so-called mousewhale instead of teeth has hairs 2222 I, 16 | by the nostrils into the mouth-an aperture through which, 2223 IV, 5 | unpalatable. In reality the mouth-apparatus of the urchin is continuous 2224 VIII, 21| treatment is to feed on mashed mulberries, to give repeated warm baths, 2225 VI, 22 | mare is said to suckle a mule-foal for six months, but not 2226 VIII, 20| subject to any such malady.~If mullein be introduced into water 2227 II, 13 | In like manner the grey mullet-as, for instance, the mullet 2228 VIII, 2 | barley-cake. Every fish of the mullet-kind lives on sea-weed and sand. 2229 II, 1 | of animals, quadruped and multiped, are crosswise, or in diagonals, 2230 II, 1 | similar in the case of the multipeds; only that the legs in between 2231 I, 11 | in the case of those who mumble and who lisp.~The tongue 2232 II, 5 | either side, by which it munches its food, grinding it like 2233 v, 4 | feet, like serpents and muraenae, intertwine in coition, 2234 VIII, 2 | for instance, the purple murex-and there can be no doubt that 2235 v, 15 | The porphyrae, or purple murices, gather together to some 2236 VI, 6 | in the verses ascribed to Musaeus:~That lays three, hatches 2237 IV, 11 | Again, the female is less muscular and less compactly jointed, 2238 IX, 37 | either of the common or the musky kinds, and certain other 2239 IX, 10 | swallow the large smooth mussel-shells: after cooking them inside 2240 IX, 40 | consequently men say that they can muster them into a hive by rattling 2241 IX, 50 | the same with men: if you mutilate them in boyhood, the later-growing 2242 IV, 8 | species has been subjected to mutilation, as in the case of the mole. 2243 IX, 37 | gives utterance to a kind of muttering noise. He is so earnest 2244 III, 17 | coagulate, as is seen with mutton and goat’s flesh. Further, 2245 II, 1 | looking, with a hook-nosed muzzle, and with horns lying more 2246 IV, 10 | position, will attack them in myriads and devour them. For these 2247 v, 18 | sepia look like big black myrtle-berries, and they are linked all 2248 VI, 35 | for this in the form of a myth, viz. that when they transported 2249 III, 9 | man; others are crooked nailed, as the lion among animals 2250 III, 9 | Of animals furnished with nails-and, by the way, all animals 2251 v, 20 | coleoptera and of the small and nameless insects make small holes 2252 I, 2 | system has a great variety of names.~Now the residuum of food 2253 v, 5 | the lamia, the aetos, the narce or torpedo, the fishing-frog, 2254 IX, 37 | into its mouth. The torpedo narcotizes the creatures that it wants 2255 IX, 37 | its way and come under its narcotizing influence. This phenomenon 2256 IV, 6 | attachment the space is narrowed from side to side, where 2257 III, 2 | veins, while those who have narrowly inspected bodies of living 2258 I, 11 | without using this process of nasal respiration.~Again, smelling 2259 IX, 8 | hunted, and the general nasty habits of the bird.~As has 2260 I, 6 | of Man. For, just as each nation is wont to reckon by that 2261 VII, 4 | general rule and among most nations the women bear one child 2262 VIII, 19| shallows off the coast of Nauplia, in the Argolid, a number 2263 VII, 4 | with superfluous humours. Nausea also and sickness affect 2264 v, 18 | the exact nature of the navel-attachment has not yet been observed, 2265 VI, 14 | some writers designate as navels-at the point where they emit 2266 I, 17 | of gall-bladders; and in Naxos nearly all the quadrupeds 2267 v, 23 | of the anthrene is much neater than the comb of the wasp. 2268 IX, 18 | a nest and lays its eggs neatly in trees; it frequents marshes 2269 v, 15 | so-called stomach; hence the necessity of separating them in abstracting 2270 v, 19 | then the cocoon, then the necydalus; and the creature passes 2271 VIII, 2 | influence, so far as is needful to them, of one element 2272 VI, 17 | destruction.~The so-called needle-fish (or pipe-fish) is late in 2273 I, 3 | for the most part, must needs be provided.~One sense, 2274 v, 13 | these peculiarities it is neglected by the pigeon-fancier. The 2275 VII, 6 | committed adultery with a negro; in this case it was not 2276 VIII, 21| occasionally the ear; the neighbouring parts also soon rot, and 2277 v, 14 | difference observable also in the neighings of horses. That is to say, 2278 IX, 44 | totally devoid of suspicion or nervous fear, is fond of romping 2279 IX, 1 | greatly attached to its nesting-place. The piphinx, the harpe, 2280 v, 22 | some bee-masters place a net-work in front of the hives; for 2281 III, 20 | rub their udders hard with nettles to cause an irritation amounting 2282 v, 22 | front of the hives; for the network is put to keep the big drones 2283 VI, 18 | title given to a growth on a new-born foal; this resembles the 2284 IX, 8 | matter of course tread any new-comer. Tame partridges tread wild 2285 VI, 18 | them in by setting on the new-comers to chastise the others.~ 2286 VI, 35 | and the blindness of the newborn young. The sexes couple 2287 VI, 18 | to the encounter of the newcomer; if one of the mares make 2288 VIII, 24| on the foal, and the mare nibbles it off as she licks and 2289 VIII, 5 | from the water and goes nibbling at the bark of the aspens 2290 VI, 12 | years; the fact is fishermen nick their tails sometimes and 2291 v, 22 | and flat-bellied, and is nick-named the "robber"; a fourth kind 2292 VIII, 19| hauls then made as the "nick-of-time" hauls. The fact is, that 2293 IX, 37 | deep and rapid waters, with night-lines.~The bonitos swarm together 2294 IV, 7 | brought up on the end of a nightline.~So much then for the parts, 2295 VIII, 12| south of Egypt where the Nile has its source. And it is 2296 III, 20 | goat’s milk they can get nineteen cheeses at an obol apiece, 2297 VII, 3 | left-hand side and about the ninetieth day. However, we must by 2298 VIII, 18| story about the siege of Ninus he represents the eagle 2299 v, 22 | eat them up; and if you nip off the wings from a drone 2300 I, 12 | breasts is attached a teat or nipple, through which in the case 2301 VII, 11 | flows not only from the nipples but at divers parts of the 2302 IX, 50 | quicker than the horses of Nisaea. As a general rule, mutilated 2303 IX, 21 | comparatively common in Nisyros, and is somewhat less than 2304 I, 1 | others do not~Some are nocturnal, as the owl and the bat; 2305 I, 1 | and others are erratic or nomad.~Also, some are carnivorous, 2306 III, 14 | has a kind of suture; in non-ambidental vivipara it has its starting-point 2307 I, 6 | afterwards the simple or non-composite.~ 2308 v, 15 | respect to copulating and non-copulating animals, and we shall commence 2309 v, 15 | throughout all its species is non-copulative.~The porphyrae, or purple 2310 VIII, 13| snails-in the case of the non-detached the concealment is not so 2311 VI, 11 | distinctness is not obvious to a non-expert. The fact is that in certain 2312 IV, 4 | the smaller species.~The non-spiral univalves and bivalves are 2313 III, 1 | that the females of horned nonambidental animals are furnished with 2314 v, 1 | produced at all, but the like nondescripts only.~First, then, we must 2315 II, 17 | spleen in all cases, when normally placed, is on the left-hand 2316 v, 8 | prevail at the solstice, northerly ones having been the accompaniment 2317 v, 15 | Further, as a general rule, in northern waters the bloom is blackish, 2318 VIII, 15| also take this sleep, and notably, the hippurus and coracinus 2319 I, 1 | creatures as have nicks or notches on their bodies, either 2320 IX, 11 | this bird is in no way noteworthy for plumage or voice; it 2321 I, 6 | and of combining rational notions with physical perception, 2322 VIII, 16| the turtledove is the most notorious of all, for we would defy 2323 IV, 7 | though, by the way, wasps notwithstanding their small size continue 2324 VII, 2 | of the excretion goes to nourish the body. In the act of 2325 IX, 41 | have to supply them with nourishment; and this is inferred from 2326 v, 11 | roe between the middle of November and the middle of December; 2327 IX, 6 | rue, the smell of which is noxious to the snake. The dragon, 2328 VII, 10 | ones. And the warmer the nurses’ milk so much the quicker 2329 III, 21 | is better than white for nursing purposes; and swarthy women 2330 VII, 1 | impediment to health and proper nutrition; but in such as are of opposite 2331 III, 21 | richest in cheese is the most nutritious, but milk with a scanty 2332 VIII, 28| animals, because neither the nuts nor the fruit last long.~ 2333 v, 19 | become what is termed a "nympha", it ceases to take food 2334 v, 23 | enough to fly, in others are nymphae, and in others are mere 2335 VIII, 24| is also a disease called nymphia, in which the animal is 2336 VI, 10 | wombs shaped like those of O birds. The womb, however, 2337 IX, 41 | grubs not underground but on oak-trees, is larger, longer, and 2338 IX, 41 | and in winter time, when oaks have been in course of felling, 2339 VI, 29 | wantonness and also to its obesity; for in summer-time it becomes 2340 IX, 1 | creature soon becomes tame, and obeys guidance. Now when the driver 2341 VIII, 2 | that, if the said organ be obliterated altogether, the animal will 2342 III, 20 | get nineteen cheeses at an obol apiece, and from the same 2343 IV, 8 | so that by an inattentive observer it might be mistaken for 2344 IX, 29 | of the cuckoo. Personal observers agree in telling most of 2345 IV, 10 | with eyelids-but can be obtained only from their motionless 2346 VIII, 13| species the phenomenon is obvious-for they hide themselves, as 2347 VI, 4 | as ten times in the year; occasional instances have been known 2348 III, 5 | attenuated subjects-for the space occupied by flesh in fat individuals 2349 IX, 37 | those that are stationary, occupy the districts where they 2350 III, 20 | its own begetting. Such occurrences, however, are regarded as 2351 v, 14 | Arabia is about the month of October. Its period of gestation 2352 IX, 37 | the birth of the little octopuses in the late summer or beginning 2353 IX, 28 | origin, nothing is known from ocular observation; the only fact 2354 IX, 49B| the bird called by some oenanthe disappears, and reappears 2355 v, 13 | the next in size is the oenas or stock-dove; and the stock-dove 2356 III, 20 | live on and about Mount Oeta take such she-goats as decline 2357 I, 17 | to the flank. And these off-branchings of the veins terminate in 2358 v, 18 | sea-weed or reeds or any off-sweepings such as brushwood, twigs, 2359 IX, 5 | possession of arms defensive and offensive. An Achaeine stag has been 2360 I, 17 | that foreigners when they offer sacrifice with such victims 2361 I, 17 | mischief to the individual offerers of the sacrifice.~Again, 2362 III, 17 | animals supplied with fat are oily, as in the pig; of animals 2363 VII, 3 | with oil of cedar, or with ointment of lead or with frankincense, 2364 VIII, 10| twigs of the olive or of the oleaster, by vetch, and bran of every 2365 v, 22 | the coincidence of rich olive-harvests and abundant swarms.~The 2366 VI, 2 | the preliminary is never omitted. Another singularity in 2367 III, 5 | with little veins in thin ones-whereas the sinews are distributed 2368 IV, 1 | variously the bolitaina or the "onion," and the ozolis or the " 2369 VI, 13 | sustenance derived from the juice oozing from the egg; by and by, 2370 v, 16 | are weaker than the more openly porous ones because their 2371 IX, 40 | are told off for diverse operations; that is, some carry flower-produce, 2372 VIII, 2 | them and striking their opponents; they are often also seen 2373 II, 1 | interlock but have flat opposing crowns, as the horse and 2374 VI, 22 | progeny. In a stable in Opus there was a stallion that 2375 III, 20 | the animal inquired of the oracle, the god informed him that 2376 VIII, 28| in the neighbourhood of Orchomenus, but there are none in Lebadia 2377 v, 10 | rivers run into the sea. The orcys or large-sized tunny, the 2378 IX, 1 | stamps on it and lays it in orderly fashion on the ground. Men 2379 v, 19 | smelted, with heaps of the ore piled on day after day, 2380 I, 6 | the parts: firstly, the organic, and afterwards the simple 2381 VIII, 17| envelops the developing organism.)~In discussing the case 2382 v, 18 | to be absolutely without organization, but nevertheless when touched 2383 VIII, 2 | moreover some are so peculiarly organized that if they be shut off 2384 IV, 8 | be smeared with powdered origanum and brimstone, quit their 2385 III, 3 | blood-vessels have their origins in the heart, for they traverse 2386 v, 19 | engendered in timber. The orsodacna or budbane is a transformed 2387 II, 1 | ass; and one, to wit the oryx, is single horned and cloven-hooved.~ 2388 I, 13 | hence it gets its name (osphus), for it is symmetrical ( 2389 IX, 32 | called the "sea-eagle" or "osprey". This bird has a large 2390 VII, 10 | head is soft and late of ossifying. And by the way, some animals 2391 IV, 4 | 4~With the ostracoderma, or testaceans, such as 2392 IX, 15 | quantity of eggs: next to the ostrich the blackheaded tit is said 2393 VIII, 24| by some, and "zignis" by others-either causes death by its bite 2394 VI, 1 | cliffs. The tetrix, called ourax in Athens, builds neither 2395 IX, 40 | the honey, some engage in out-of-door work. At early dawn they 2396 VII, 7 | discharge of air, and the outflow is manifestly caused by 2397 IV, 2 | furnished also with delicate outgrowing appendages. Like the crawfish, 2398 v, 18 | detail, but their general outline is clear enough. And, by 2399 IV, 10 | be distinguished by the outlines of their shapes in the sand, 2400 IX, 40 | and that, if this swarm outlives the king for a while and 2401 IX, 6 | to north, they shift the outlook of their earth-holes, and 2402 IX, 8 | them with every possible outrage. The leader of the wild 2403 v, 6 | other sex fits into the outspreading of these tentacles, and 2404 I, 11 | disposition, while the large and outstanding ones indicate a tendency 2405 v, 28 | eggs assume the shape of oval grubs that are enveloped 2406 IX, 50 | sexually with the cow. The ovaries of sows are excised with 2407 v, 14 | the goat". However, if an over-fat he-goat be thinned down, 2408 v, 14 | or young; but, if it be over-fattened in pregnancy, it gives the 2409 VII, 5 | have partaken of salt in overabundance their children are apt to 2410 IV, 8 | or bilge-water be thrown overboard, are observed to scud off 2411 III, 17 | kidney is superinduced by overfeeding, as is found at Leontini 2412 VI, 14 | spawn in pools left by the overflowing of rivers, and near to reedy 2413 IX, 13 | lays six or seven eggs, in overhanging banks where the soil is 2414 IV, 2 | they are smaller and do not overlap; and, further, on the last 2415 VIII, 19| little fishes escape by being overlooked, for it is only the larger 2416 VIII, 2 | Thus, this animal is so overmastered and cowed by the octopus 2417 VIII, 10| lose flesh if they be kept overmuch on the move or be subjected 2418 VII, 6 | old, and if that limit be overpassed then until seventy years; 2419 II, 1 | is when the animal never overpasses the right with the left, 2420 VI, 28 | sheer cliffs and chasms and overshadowed by trees. The boar usually 2421 IV, 2 | that it is difficult to overtake them; these crabs, when 2422 VIII, 28| galleys at full speed and overturned one galley and set upon 2423 v, 18 | figure, let A represent the ovum, B and C the eyes, and D 2424 IX, 1 | birds flutter round the owl-a practice which is popularly 2425 IX, 28 | 28~Of the little horned owls there are two kinds, and 2426 IX, 19 | 19~There are two kinds of owsels; the one is black, and is 2427 VI, 11 | also the saw-fish and the ox-ray.)~ 2428 VIII, 30| as scallops and all the oyster-family, and crustaceans, such as 2429 IV, 1 | or the "onion," and the ozolis or the "stinkard".~There 2430 IX, 45 | Paeonia from Maedica; and the Paeonians call it the monapos. It 2431 IV, 2 | a second variety is the pagarus and the crab of Heracleotis, 2432 VI, 19 | males, due regard being paid to their looking northwards 2433 v, 15 | spontaneously. The shells that painters use are a good deal thicker, 2434 VII, 4 | these latter look as a rule paler and suffer more pain, and 2435 VI, 3 | heart and the navel together palpitate as though the creature were 2436 III, 19 | central parts.~Blood beats or palpitates in the veins of all animals 2437 v, 19 | Coan woman of the name of Pamphila, daughter of Plateus, being 2438 VI, 2 | and pour them into a sauce pan and boil them slowly over 2439 II, 1 | something between the sound of a pan-pipe and that of a trumpet; that 2440 III, 4 | omentum, and another to the pancreas, from which vein run a number 2441 IV, 5 | a horn lantern with the panes of horn left out. The urchin 2442 IV, 9 | like the sound of a man panting or sighing; but, if it employ 2443 IV, 2 | starting-point in "cotyledons" or papillae, which are situated under 2444 IV, 4 | firm formations, mastoid or papillary in form; and similar formations 2445 III, 19 | male and female to be on a par as regards age and general 2446 VIII, 20| liable to sunstroke, and is paralysed by a loud peal of thunder. 2447 III, 17 | animals supplied with suet, parched and dry. But it is about 2448 IX, 23 | 23~There is also the pardalus. As a rule, it is seen in 2449 II, 1 | withers, and the animal called pardion, in either case a thin mane 2450 v, 1 | and from these issues the parent-species is never reproduced, nor 2451 v, 19 | not derived from living parentage, but are generated spontaneously: 2452 II, 1 | this is wrapped-the hard part-is derived from the bones; 2453 II, 3 | the broad or blunt ones, partaking of the form of both kinds; 2454 IX, 5 | fact being that, as having parted with their weapons, they 2455 III, 1 | breaking up into so many particles.~The womb of birds has the 2456 IX, 49B| with ripe corn~Again his particoloured plumes are worn.~But evermore, 2457 IX, 7 | death of one of the two parties. At the time of parturition 2458 I, 7 | vertex. In some cases the parting is double; that is to say, 2459 I, 1 | or fewness, magnitude or parvitude, in short in the way of 2460 IX, 40 | to give themselves free passage-room; for if such free passage 2461 IV, 3 | it entered; and the two passage-ways are underneath the eyes. 2462 VI, 2 | there be no concomitant pathological circumstances. Cases have 2463 IX, 49 | feminine that they will submit patiently to other males who attempt 2464 IX, 10 | leader in their flight, and patrols that scream on the confines 2465 II, 17 | midriff to the big stomach (or paunch); and this stomach is rough 2466 VI, 29 | on the run the deer keeps pausing from time to time, and waits 2467 IX, 1 | and those that dwell in peace with one another "associates". 2468 IX, 1 | fiercest creatures live peaceably together. The fact is they 2469 IV, 2 | crawfish. Over the eyes is a peaky rough projection like a 2470 VIII, 20| and is paralysed by a loud peal of thunder. The carp is 2471 VIII, 6 | millet, figs, acorns, wild pears, and cucumbers. These animals-and 2472 IX, 29 | it allows itself to be pecked at by little birds, and 2473 IX, 1 | and so with the green wood pecker and the libyus; and so with 2474 IX, 8 | partridges tread wild birds, pecket their heads, and treat them 2475 III, 3 | in fishes to the upper or pectoral fins. (See diagram.) The 2476 IX, 5 | straight in shape, like pegs for hanging clothes on; 2477 VI, 17 | Pontus in the spring as pelamyds. Fishes as a rule take on 2478 v, 13 | is not identical with the peleias or rock-pigeon. In other 2479 VIII, 12| migratory-the crane, the swan, the pelican, and the lesser goose.~ 2480 VII, 11 | the fluids issue from the pelvic region before entering into 2481 I, 13 | the hinder parts is the pelvis, and hence it gets its name ( 2482 VIII, 3 | the horned grebe, and the penelops. The sea-eagle lives in 2483 v, 19 | named the hypera and the penia are derived from similar 2484 III, 12 | Assyritis in the Chalcidic Peninsula, on the coast of Thrace; 2485 VIII, 2 | near in to the shore, the peraeas keeps out at a distance 2486 IV, 8 | of rancid meat, which it perceives and is attracted to from 2487 IV, 8 | attracted to a thing by perceiving its smell, it is sure to 2488 IX, 36 | attacks the pigeon when it is perched upon a tree or any elevation, 2489 IX, 32 | is another species, the percnopterus, very large, with white 2490 III, 1 | internally; and owing to this perculiarity the properties of the womb 2491 I, 5 | result of conception is perfected, with some animals a living 2492 v, 15 | means of it, it feeds, and perforates conchylia and the shells 2493 v, 30 | which husbandmen prop vines, perforating the canes; and also in the 2494 IX, 37 | He is so earnest in the performance of his parental duties that 2495 I, 14 | thigh and buttocks is the "perineum", and the part outside the 2496 VIII, 16| regard to this phenomenon of periodic torpor there is no distinction 2497 v, 8 | season of calm is almost periodical. The bird lays about five 2498 IV, 4 | the semi-circles of the periphery, as is the case with the 2499 v, 13 | many diversities; for the peristera or common pigeon is not 2500 II, 1 | animals retain their horns permanently, unless the horns be damaged 2501 III, 19 | is the only liquid that permeates the entire frames of living 2502 VIII, 2 | perfectly clear, by its perpetually flowing on to flat slabs