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3003 IX, 37 | dogfish, no spiny dogfish, no sea-crawfish, no octopus either of the 3004 VIII, 13| muraena, and the piper or sea-cuckoo are found alike in shallow 3005 IV, 4 | limpet (called by some the "sea-ear"), the residuum issues beneath 3006 VIII, 13| of fish also are found in sea-estuaries; such as the saupe, the 3007 VIII, 30| mottled; it is the only sea-fish which is said make a bed 3008 IX, 35 | cepphus is caught by means of sea-foam; the bird snaps at the foam, 3009 v, 31 | that their tail is flat. Sea-lice are uniform in shape and 3010 VIII, 13| Some people accustomed to sea-life assert that shoal-fish at 3011 II, 14 | of feet.~There are also sea-scolopendras, resembling in shape their 3012 VIII, 13| glaucus. The braize, the sea-scorpion, the black conger, the muraena, 3013 IV, 4 | ceryx or trumpet-shell, the sea-snail, and the spiral-shaped testaceans 3014 IV, 4 | the land-snails and the sea-snails, and all the "oysters" so-called, 3015 IV, 9 | whizzing sound; and so does the sea-swallow or flying-fish: for this 3016 VIII, 2 | on marine vegetation.~The sea-turtles feed on shell-fish-for, 3017 IX, 14 | the name of halosachne or seafoam, only the colour is not 3018 IX, 40 | they mix in water before sealing up the comb. As has been 3019 IX, 1 | together. Thus it is said that seals which inhabit one and the 3020 VIII, 3 | cerylus, is found near the seaside. The crow also feeds on 3021 VI, 17 | spawns in places abounding in seaweed, at a period later than 3022 IV, 1 | place, the so-called feet; secondly, and attached to these, 3023 I, 3 | capable of generation one secretes into another, and the other 3024 v, 1 | inside of animals out of the secretions of their several organs.~ 3025 v, 16 | that when they are first secured they are found to be full 3026 VII, 1 | lascivious disposition grow more sedate and virtuous after they 3027 VII, 9 | especially the case in persons of sedentary habits, and in those who 3028 IX, 1 | friends, as also are the sedge-bird and lark, the laedus and 3029 VI, 3 | inside the chick and a yellow sediment is in its stomach. About 3030 VIII, 1 | observed the traces and seeds of what will one day be 3031 | seemed 3032 IV, 7 | practically the same number of segments as of nicks.~All insects 3033 VI, 29 | pregnant, the males all segregate one by one, and in consequence 3034 IV, 6 | your hand to it, it will seize and cling to it, as the 3035 II, 13 | operculum, as in all but the selachian fishes, but with one of 3036 v, 11 | oftener in one place and seldomer in another.~ 3037 I, 1 | to live each for its own self.~Gregarious creatures are, 3038 I, 1 | others are jealous and self-conceited, as the peacock. But of 3039 IX, 45 | useless for purposes of self-defence; they are a span broad, 3040 v, 1 | whilst other plants are self-generated through the formation of 3041 IX, 1 | man, more void of shame or self-respect, more false of speech, more 3042 I, 17 | and long, resembling the self-same organ in the pig. The liver 3043 IX, 49B| seeks the lonely hills, in self-sought banishment.~Of birds, some 3044 IX, 49B| youth and age, upon the selfsame bird.~The spangled raiment 3045 IV, 4 | is situated in one of the semi-circles of the periphery, as is 3046 II, 17 | stomach is rough inside and semi-partitioned. And connected with it near 3047 IV, 6 | other organ whether motor or sensory, nor, as was said in the 3048 IX, 40 | detection, for there are sentinels on guard at every entry; 3049 IX, 45 | on Mount Messapium, which separates Paeonia from Maedica; and 3050 v, 8 | circumstances, averse to separation; for the intercourse of 3051 IV, 7 | nor spine, nor bone, nor sepia-bone, nor enveloping shell; but 3052 v, 18 | and C the eyes, and D the sepidium, or body of the little sepia. ( 3053 v, 17 | eggs before the middle of September, and after the middle of 3054 VIII, 29| in Libya; the so-called "septic" drug is made from the body 3055 I, 11 | gristle, constitutes, a septum or partition, and part is 3056 VI, 2 | begin with, and subsequently sequently he mounts without previously 3057 VI, 34 | parturition she retires to sequestered places, so that it is a 3058 VIII, 4 | other quadrupeds, and the serpents-are omnivorous: at all events 3059 III, 7 | designated the "skull". And the serrated lines on the skull are termed " 3060 IX, 18 | folklore stories to be of servile origin, and, as its nickname 3061 v, 32 | articles made of wool, as the ses or clothes-moth. And these 3062 IX, 5 | then goes in quest of the seseli shrub, and after eating 3063 VIII, 1 | of what will one day be settled psychological habits, though 3064 I, 17 | district of the Chalcidic settlement in Euboea the sheep are 3065 I, 15 | for as to the so-called seven-ribbed Ligyans we have not received 3066 v, 17 | then a finger’s breadth, or seven-tenths of an inch, in length. The 3067 v, 14 | known to live to the age of seventy-five. The ass and the she-ass 3068 VI, 20 | part of the year or for seventy-two days; and their pups are 3069 IV, 7 | size continue living after severance. In conjunction with the 3070 IX, 39 | speckled kind makes a little shabby web under trees.~There is 3071 v, 30 | olive grove is not thickly shaded. And the cicada is not found 3072 IX, 16 | bird, sits in summer in a shady spot facing the wind, in 3073 VIII, 10| short-fleeced sheep than the shaggy-fleeced; and sheep with crisp wool 3074 IX, 6 | when it wants it to go, it shakes its neck in warning, lest 3075 IX, 44 | with his claws, but after shaking him and giving him a fright 3076 VIII, 13| consequently the flesh of shallow-water fishes is firm and consistent, 3077 VI, 14 | s depth, the smaller in shallower water, generally close to 3078 IX, 1 | than the man, more void of shame or self-respect, more false 3079 IX, 30 | cypselus has feathers on the shank. These birds rear their 3080 IV, 2 | on either side, which are sharp-pointed-those towards the head; and five 3081 v, 14 | general rule the female is sharper-toned in voice than the male, 3082 I, 10 | particularly well adapted for sharpness of vision. Man is the only, 3083 II, 1 | two, and others more. The she-camel, also, has two dugs and 3084 VI, 37 | births. On one occasion a she-mouse in a state of pregnancy 3085 VI, 24 | parturition. In Syrophoenicia she-mules submit to the mule and bear 3086 v, 5 | of the tortoise; and the she-tortoise, though furnished with a 3087 I, 5 | some are coleopterous or sheath-winged, for they have their wings 3088 I, 5 | dung-beetle; others are sheathless, and of these latter some 3089 IX, 37 | it ejects the shells and sheaths of crabs and shell-fish, 3090 III, 1 | canal, around which lies, sheathwise, what is called the "penis".~ 3091 IX, 1 | as those elsewhere; but sheep-dogs of this breed are superior 3092 IX, 3 | close in together within the sheepfold by reason of their training.~ 3093 IV, 7 | the internal substance of shell-covered animals, nor is it like 3094 VIII, 2 | The sea-turtles feed on shell-fish-for, by the way, their mouths 3095 IV, 2 | stated, have their hard and shelly part outside, where the 3096 VI, 29 | inlet, inside which she shelters herself against attack.~ 3097 II, 1 | of equal size. Thus the shepard has four dugs in the belly, 3098 IV, 7 | seen creatures resembling shields, red in colour, and furnished 3099 IV, 11 | more knock-kneed, and the shin-bones are thinner; and the feet 3100 IV, 9 | transparent, and the animal’s eyes shine through the jaw like lamps; 3101 II, 14 | some call the Echeneis, or "ship-holder", and which is by some people 3102 VI, 2 | sicken. After copulation hens shiver and shake themselves, and 3103 IX, 2 | say that the following are shoaling fish: the tunny, the maenis, 3104 IX, 37 | overpowering them by the power of shock that is resident in its 3105 II, 1 | and has the faculty of shooting off arrow-wise the spines 3106 VIII, 4 | specimens kept alive in the shops of the apothecaries.~ 3107 VI, 12 | dry land-only close to the shore-as being an animal furnished 3108 VIII, 13| are found near into the shore-the synodon, the black bream, 3109 VIII, 25| animal is not found on the shores of the Euxine, nor in Scythia.~ 3110 IX, 35 | quarters, which smell of shoreweed.~ 3111 VIII, 28| camel. In Lycia goats are shorn for their fleece, just as 3112 VIII, 10| than long-tailed sheep, and short-fleeced sheep than the shaggy-fleeced; 3113 VIII, 12| with crooked talons are short-necked, flat-tongued, and disposed 3114 II, 12 | but the small rumped or short-tailed birds fly with their legs 3115 II, 1 | quadruped; for just behind the shoulder-blade its front feet are placed, 3116 III, 7 | the stomach. Then come the shoulder-bones, or blade-bones, and the 3117 I, 12 | neck is the epomis, or "shoulder-point".~These then are the parts 3118 III, 5 | epitonos or back-stay and the shoulder-sinews. Other sinews, devoid of 3119 I, 15 | the back are a pair of "shoulderblades", the "back-bone", and, 3120 IV, 8 | they call on every man to shout out aloud and make any kind 3121 IX, 34 | keep him off by raising a shower of water-drops with their 3122 IX, 35 | catch it by sluicing with showers of sea-water. These birds 3123 VIII, 24| knuckle-beetle. The bite of the shrewmouse is dangerous to horses and 3124 IX, 22 | so-called soft-head (or shrike) always settles on one and 3125 IV, 2 | and the little kind, or shrimps, and the little kind do 3126 v, 20 | Their death is due to the shrivelling of their organs, just as 3127 III, 5 | submitted to such action, shrivels up altogether; and, if sinews 3128 IX, 5 | goes in quest of the seseli shrub, and after eating of it 3129 VI, 1 | trees, but on low-lying shrubs.~ 3130 v, 8 | winter solstice, but in the Sicilian seas this season of calm 3131 VI, 2 | no brooding they pine and sicken. After copulation hens shiver 3132 VIII, 20| rising of the Dog-star, that sickens these fish and causes them 3133 IX, 40 | same material narrow by side-building the entrances to the hive 3134 VIII, 18| for in his story about the siege of Ninus he represents the 3135 IV, 9 | sound of a man panting or sighing; but, if it employ the trunk 3136 IX, 5 | of sight and shoots, at a signal given by the confederate. 3137 IX, 37 | security, and they call these signal-fishes "holy-fish". It is a sort 3138 IX, 10 | sees anything of importance signals it with a cry.~Pelicans 3139 IX, 32 | quarrelsome; it is also silent, for it neither whimpers 3140 v, 32 | as is the case with the silkworm, and lives in a motionless 3141 VIII, 17| in the same way; as the silphe, and the empis or midge, 3142 VIII, 29| the original. Among the silphium, also, a snake is found, 3143 IX, 49B| Now in the white hawk’s silver plumage drest,~For, timely 3144 II, 17 | escape recognition from the similarities in shape. Thus, the windpipe 3145 VII, 4 | beginning of conception from the similarity of the symptoms that they 3146 v, 8 | following, the solstice; as Simonides the poet says:~God lulls 3147 VI, 22 | that venders of drugs and simples hold the substance in high 3148 IX, 1 | passions: to cunning or simplicity, courage or timidity, to 3149 III, 5 | chambers, and the aorta is a sinew-like vein; in fact, at its extremity 3150 II, 1 | to be singled-horned and single-hooved, as the Indian ass; and 3151 I, 15 | The big finger or thumb is single-jointed, the other fingers are double 3152 II, 1 | animals are known to be singled-horned and single-hooved, as the 3153 IX, 23 | is seen in flocks and not singly; it is ashen-coloured all 3154 II, 13 | mullet found in the lake at Siphae-have only two fins; and the same 3155 VI, 19 | they drink and also on the sires. And if they submit to the 3156 IX, 36 | the wing, the pigeon will sit still; if it be one that 3157 IX, 17 | unlucky bird. The bird called sitta is quarrelsome, but clever 3158 v, 15 | their opercula similarly situated-and, in fact, all the stromboids, 3159 IV, 2 | into five divisions, and sixthly comes the flattened portion 3160 v, 14 | generative up to the age of sixty-five, and to the age of forty-five 3161 v, 14 | bitch is sixty days, or sixty-one, or sixty-two, or sixty-three 3162 v, 14 | sixty-one, or sixty-two, or sixty-three at the utmost; the period 3163 v, 14 | sixty days, or sixty-one, or sixty-two, or sixty-three at the utmost; 3164 VIII, 3 | resembling the duck but less in size-and the water-raven or cormorant. 3165 IX, 37 | and shell-fish, and the skeletons of little fishes. It seeks 3166 III, 5 | the entire body, like a sketch of a mannikin; in such a 3167 IX, 40 | the surface and should be skimmed off; the fine clear honey 3168 v, 19 | the flat animalcule that skims over the surface of rivers 3169 IV, 8 | eyes visible, but if the skin-a thick one, by the way-be 3170 I, 16 | this brain-caul is that skin-like membrane which closely surrounds 3171 VIII, 17| animals also do not cast their skins once and for all, but over 3172 VI, 22 | steady but quick-tempered and skittish.)~ 3173 IX, 18 | which is nicknamed "the skulker", is said in folklore stories 3174 VIII, 2 | perpetually flowing on to flat slabs of stone and then flowing 3175 III, 4 | aorta and the backbone by slack membranous communications. 3176 v, 22 | grub when it is small lies slantwise in the comb, but by and 3177 IX, 31 | mercenaries under Medius were slaughtered at Pharsalus, the districts 3178 VII, 1 | temperament is moist and sleek and the reverse of sinewy, 3179 IX, 43 | into kitchens and on to slices of fish and the like dainties. 3180 I, 15 | termed the "thigh-bone", the sliding part of the "kneecap", the 3181 VIII, 2 | octopus, for owing to the slipperiness of its antagonist the octopus 3182 VIII, 17| tessellates. Thus, the old-age is sloughed off by the gecko, the lizard, 3183 VI, 14 | come by. Next in point of slowness is the generation of the 3184 IX, 35 | consequently fishermen catch it by sluicing with showers of sea-water. 3185 III, 4 | water-channels choked with slush; and the others have a few 3186 v, 19 | places where copper-ore is smelted, with heaps of the ore piled 3187 III, 11 | hairy; and, by the way, smooth-chinned men are less inclined than 3188 IX, 36 | hobby-hawk, or sparrow-hawk, or "smooth-feathered", or "toad-catcher". Birds 3189 IX, 44 | in summer the animal is smooth-haired, in winter he is clothed 3190 IV, 4 | with one another. Some are smooth-shelled, like the solen, the mussel, 3191 IV, 2 | and the body in general is smoother and more full of flesh. 3192 VII, 2 | which reason man is the smoothest of animals), especially 3193 v, 10 | smyrus differs from the smyraena; for the muraena is mottled 3194 v, 11 | also the sargue, and the smyxon or myxon, and the cephalus; 3195 IV, 4 | the stromboids. are some snail-shells which have inside them creatures 3196 VIII, 13| as in the case of land snails-in the case of the non-detached 3197 IX, 37 | caught by the hook when snapping at the little fish that 3198 I, 11 | exhales by this organ, and sneezing is effected by its means: 3199 VIII, 5 | accounts for their habit of sniffing at trees; for, by the way, 3200 IV, 8 | as for instance bees and snipes detect the presence of honey 3201 VI, 12 | water, and when asleep he snores.~The dolphin and the porpoise 3202 IV, 10 | actually heard the dolphin snoring.~Molluscs sleep like fishes, 3203 VI, 37 | mouse-holes by rooting with their snouts. Foxes also hunt them, and 3204 v, 19 | The grubs found in the snows of Media are large and white; 3205 IX, 3 | if it be overtaken by a snowstorm, it will stand still unless 3206 II, 7 | cloven-footed like an ox, and is snub-nosed. It has a huckle-bone like 3207 IV, 11 | female smaller and more snubbed, they are taking diversity 3208 VIII, 26| refuses olive-oil, they soak a root in the oil and give 3209 IX, 6 | themselves with mud, by first soaking in the river and then rolling 3210 IX, 40 | they go out of doors, they soar up in the air in a stream, 3211 IX, 32 | difficulty it experiences in soaring up from the level ground; 3212 I, 13 | thigh pivots is termed the "socket" (or acetabulum).~The "womb" 3213 IV, 8 | sinewy ducts running past the sockets of the eyes, and terminating 3214 III, 10 | or with tessellates. With soft-haired animals the hair gets harder 3215 IX, 22 | turtle-dove. The so-called soft-head (or shrike) always settles 3216 I, 6 | called oyster; another of the soft-shell kind, not as yet designated 3217 VIII, 17| allowed with regard to the soft-shelled crabs, and it is said to 3218 VIII, 24| barley-surfeit". The are a softening of the palate and heat of 3219 VI, 29 | strike the animal ever so softly, it is apt to break asunder, 3220 VIII, 13| from the shortness of their sojourn in the Euxine. The shoals 3221 IX, 37 | calamary make the discharge solely from fear. These creatures 3222 III, 17 | fish is fatty, and does not solidify or congeal. All animals 3223 IX, 40 | ground-wasp); three are solitary-the smaller siren, of a dun 3224 VI, 9 | their eggs and brood in solitude. Only two eggs are put under 3225 VIII, 24| animal as a medicine in a solution of water, the liquid being 3226 v, 1 | females there is generated a something-a something never identical 3227 VII, 6 | mark on his arm which his son did not possess, but his 3228 IX, 20 | the jay. A second is the song-thrush; it has a sharp pipe, and 3229 IX, 12 | But called Cymindis by the sons of earth.~The hybris, said 3230 IX, 1 | subsist on living creatures. Soothsayers take notice of cases where 3231 IX, 40 | bruises and suppurating sores. The greasy stuff that comes 3232 VI, 15 | arise all from one of two sources, from mud, or from sand 3233 IX, 7 | it runs short of mud, it souses its body in water and rolls 3234 v, 15 | bloom is blackish, and in southern waters of a reddish hue. 3235 VIII, 13| are better catches to the southward than in the neighbourhood 3236 III, 7 | against one another they emit sparks like flint-stones. The dolphin 3237 IX, 36 | the name of hobby-hawk, or sparrow-hawk, or "smooth-feathered", 3238 VIII, 3 | wit, the dove-hawk and the sparrow-hawk-and, by the way, these two hawks 3239 III, 11 | women, but more scanty and sparse. Men and women are at times 3240 VII, 2 | catamenia occur regularly but sparsely every month, and more abundantly 3241 II, 17 | the red mullet, and the sparus; the cestreus or grey mullet 3242 IV, 9 | and may, so to speak, be spat outwards, and it is with 3243 IV, 5 | are two other species, the spatangus, and the so-called bryssus, 3244 VI, 14 | on guard at the principal spawning-place, and the female after spawning 3245 IV, 8 | assure us that, if any one speaks aloud, the creature makes 3246 IV, 10 | in this position by being speared with pronged instruments. 3247 II, 7 | The hide is so thick that spears are made out of it. In its 3248 IX, 18 | always wet. Of the other two species-for there are three in all-the 3249 VI, 3 | the heart appears, like a speck of blood, in the white of 3250 IV, 9 | a young bird, from which spectacle we might obviously infer 3251 VII, 9 | suffering pain in the loins, and speedy when the pain is abdominal. 3252 VI, 15 | districts, when after a spell of fine weather the ground 3253 VI, 12 | furnished with feet; it spends, however, the greater part 3254 IX, 41 | construct the so-called sphecons,-little nests containing 3255 VIII, 1 | particular species, and the sphere of action with certain animals 3256 IX, 2 | dentex, the red mullet, the sphyraena, the anthias, the eleginus, 3257 VIII, 27| insect like itself, of a spider-shape, and brings disease into 3258 v, 24 | hardly break it open with a spike. Here the insects lay their 3259 VIII, 8 | corn is injurious if the spikes are too stiff and sharp. 3260 IV, 8 | distance whenever fish-blood is spilt in the sea. And, as a general 3261 III, 2 | on each side through the spinal marrow to the testicles, 3262 IX, 40 | honey are as follows: the spindle-tree, the melilot-clover, king’ 3263 VIII, 27| instance, the grub that spins a web and ruins the honeycomb: 3264 VIII, 2 | carnivorous. The crawfish or spiny-lobster can get the better of fishes 3265 IV, 4 | in the direction of the spire, but the opposite way. Such 3266 v, 18 | vine tendril. It lays or spirts out the spawn with an effort, 3267 IX, 10 | precedes the stomach, they spit them out, so that, now when 3268 VII, 2 | exception, for some conceive in spite of the absence of these 3269 v, 24 | clay with something like spittle. And this nest or hive is 3270 IV, 8 | inside the canoes a loud splashing in the water, and by so 3271 IX, 47 | that all her foals were splendid; that wishing to mate the 3272 VIII, 3 | water, while such as are split-footed live by the edge of it-and, 3273 VI, 13 | after it has spawned by the splitting of this diaphysis, the sides 3274 IX, 40 | just as wine is apt to be spoiled by its cask; consequently, 3275 VIII, 19| them the sun reaches it spoils.~Fishes are caught in greatest 3276 IX, 32 | the smallest birds-are all spoilt by the interbreeding of 3277 IX, 37 | creatures in the vicinity, and sponge-divers will dive in security, and 3278 VIII, 18| case also with all other spongy-lunged oviparous animals. Sickness 3279 IX, 25 | other is gregarious, and not sporadic like the first; it is, however, 3280 II, 1 | walking through water it spouts the water up by means of 3281 v, 6 | head against the ground and spreads abroad its tentacles, the 3282 III, 4 | each of the two kidneys springs a hollow sinewy vein, running 3283 IX, 40 | almond-trees. Some bee-keepers sprinkle their bees with flour, and 3284 VIII, 10| the more if they be first sprinkled with brine. Sheep will take 3285 IV, 11 | where the cock-bird has a spur the hen is entirely destitute 3286 IV, 2 | feet of the male there are spur-like projections, large and sharp, 3287 v, 2 | mounts without the female squatting, as with the male and female 3288 IV, 9 | inarticulate sounds and squeaks, which is what is called 3289 VIII, 4 | and then he contracts and squeezes himself into little compass, 3290 IX, 2 | sarginus, the gar-fish, (the squid,) the rainbow-wrasse, the 3291 v, 30 | also in the stalks of the squill. This brood runs into the 3292 IV, 2 | hunch-backs", the crangons, or squillae, and the little kind, or 3293 IX, 1 | fiercely with one another, and stab one another with their tusks; 3294 v, 19 | with; first even at this stage-it assumes a reddish colour, 3295 VI, 16 | they do not appear even in stagnant ponds, for the simple reason 3296 v, 15 | removed and squeezed it stains your hand with the colour 3297 VIII, 2 | sea-moss or the so-called stalk-weed or growing plants; as for 3298 IX, 47 | he had him brought to the stall for the purpose; that the 3299 IX, 50 | greatest extent in winter, and stall-fed ruminants carry it on for 3300 VIII, 24| twitching of the right testicle.~Stall-reared horses are subject to very 3301 IX, 1 | brings it down, when he stamps on it and lays it in orderly 3302 IX, 44 | quite yellow, and not to be stanched by bandage or sponge; the 3303 I, 6 | reckon by that monetary standard with which it is most familiar, 3304 v, 1 | whereas in the former case we started with a consideration of 3305 III, 3 | to allow his animals to starve to emaciation, then to strangle 3306 III, 22 | misapprehension when he states that the Aethiopians eject 3307 VI, 5 | foreign country unknown to us, stating as a proof of the assertion 3308 VI, 35 | long in the body and low in stature; but not withstanding the 3309 IX, 8 | might be the case if they stayed long in one spot, they do 3310 IX, 40 | are rough and hairy from staying indoors; the young bees 3311 IX, 1 | night, and with the lark for stealing its eggs.~The snake is at 3312 VI, 20 | contrives to line a bitch by stealth, as they impregnate after 3313 IX, 21 | face of the rocks. It is steel-blue all over; its beak is long 3314 VI, 12 | the water. It slips down steep places instead of walking, 3315 IX, 50 | out uglier and smaller. Steers are mutilated in the following 3316 VIII, 12| these birds migrate from the steppes of Scythia to the marshlands 3317 v, 9 | disappear in a moment, and Stesichorus in one of his poems alludes 3318 IX, 9 | daw; it makes its way by sticking these claws into the bark. 3319 VI, 2 | whereas the yolk does not stiffen; but, unless it be burnt 3320 IX, 44 | to run away when the boar stiffened his bristles in defence. 3321 VI, 2 | liquefy. Again, the white stiffens under the influence of fire, 3322 VIII, 5 | horse, only that the hair is stiffer and longer and extends over 3323 VI, 24 | other draught-beasts and stimulate them to their work; and 3324 VI, 22 | the younger horses may be stimulated beyond their years if they 3325 IX, 50 | sexual appetites and of stimulating growth in size and fatness. 3326 IX, 40 | reason they are called "sting-drones", not that they really have 3327 IV, 1 | and the ozolis or the "stinkard".~There are two others found 3328 IV, 8 | you bait your weel with a stinking bait, the fish refuse to 3329 IX, 1 | if there were no lack or stint of food, then those animals 3330 IV, 10 | net without making them stir. Fish, as a general rule, 3331 IX, 37 | Accordingly, when the animal stirs up a place full of sand 3332 IX, 50 | cut off a little piece and stitch up the incision. Female 3333 IX, 11 | so-called charadrius, or stone-curlew; this bird is in no way 3334 III, 21 | milker has to stand erect, stooping forward a little, as otherwise, 3335 IX, 40 | bee-keepers call this stuff "stop-wax". They also with the same 3336 III, 20 | for cheese-making and for storage. This is especially the 3337 IX, 38 | engaged in putting away and storing up their food; all this 3338 IX, 6 | eat the standing corn. Storks, and all other birds, when 3339 IX, 3 | without closing in, the storm will kill it if it be with 3340 IX, 45 | the size of a bull, but stouter in build, and not long in 3341 VII, 1 | in the way of leanness, stoutness, and vigour; thus, after 3342 II, 1 | case of some animals a few straggling hairs grow under the eyelid.~ 3343 III, 9 | furnished with nails, some are straight-nailed, like man; others are crooked 3344 IX, 49B| the pheasant; some of the straight-taloned birds, and such as live 3345 VIII, 2 | contained in the sea and can be strained off from it can be proved 3346 IX, 12 | sea singing in mournful strains, and have actually seen 3347 v, 12 | sea-urchin found in the Pyrrhaean Straits, for this urchin is at its 3348 VII, 11 | parts of the breast called strangalides, or "knots", which occur 3349 IX, 32 | refused entertainment to a stranger. The eagle puts aside its 3350 III, 3 | starve to emaciation, then to strangle them on a sudden, and thereupon 3351 II, 11 | most part coiled up, like a strap of leather. It stands higher 3352 IX, 7 | does, it makes a bed of straw, putting hard material below 3353 IX, 42 | individual anthrenae have strayed from their nest, they cluster 3354 IX, 6 | to keep the animal from straying to any distance; the animal 3355 IX, 4 | herds, and if one animal strays away the rest will follow; 3356 IX, 14 | it ascends fresh-water streams. It lays generally about 3357 IX, 50 | consequence of the length of their stride, much quicker than the horses 3358 VI, 14 | spawn in one continuous string, like the frog; so continuous, 3359 VII, 1 | like an instrument whose strings are frayed and out of tune; 3360 VII, 1 | continent. For if a lad strive diligently to hinder his 3361 VI, 2 | they do the same if they be stroked in a peculiar way by hand. 3362 v, 15 | of the nerites, or of the strombus or the like, and very often 3363 IV, 8 | the mouth of a cave with strong-smelling pickles, and the fish are 3364 IV, 11 | where there is no hair, less strongly furnished in some analogous 3365 VII, 1 | congenitally impotent owing to structural defect; and in like manner 3366 IX, 39 | into the web and begins to struggle, when out the spider pounces. 3367 v, 16 | again from the remaining stump and the place is soon as 3368 v, 16 | prey also on the remaining stumps of the sponge; but, if the 3369 IX, 3 | to intelligence, and to stupidity.~The sheep is said to be 3370 IV, 9 | for the most part lisp and stutter.~Vocal sounds and modes 3371 IV, 8 | by the burning of the gum styrax. The cuttle-fish, the octopus, 3372 I, 6 | animals, into which other subdivisions fall, are the following: 3373 III, 5 | little veins in attenuated subjects-for the space occupied by flesh 3374 VI, 2 | all over, as the yolk is subsequently-have been found in the cock when 3375 IX, 39 | skilful spiders, weaving a substantial web, there are two kinds, 3376 III, 5 | by it and appears to be substantially composed of it. Now, vein 3377 IX, 49B| however, when fine weather has succeeded to very stormy weather, 3378 VIII, 7 | to rear them, but without success.~ 3379 IX, 42 | in swarms as bees do, but successive layers of young anthrenae 3380 v, 14 | manifested, but manifested successively. Thus, in all animals, the 3381 VI, 18 | discharges, but never in such-abundance as is the female of the 3382 IV, 7 | exceedingly thin. These and such-like are the external organs 3383 VI, 22 | ordinary foal it allows to suck for a longer period.~Horse 3384 VI, 10 | attached as it were by a sucker), and also to the centre 3385 IV, 1 | and in having one row of suckers-all the rest of the molluscs 3386 VI, 12 | most. It has two teats, and suckles its young like a quadruped. 3387 VIII, 21| disease while they are mere sucklings. The pimples may be got 3388 III, 20 | animals supplied with fat, and suet-like in animals with suet. All 3389 III, 15 | into stones in the case of sufferers from that malady. Indeed, 3390 v, 18 | if they be removed they suffice to fill a vessel much larger 3391 VIII, 21| chine the skin will appear suffused with blood, and further 3392 IX, 1 | as can differentiate the suggested meanings of word and gesture.~ 3393 IX, 7 | and masticate pieces of suitable food, will open the beaks 3394 IV, 8 | severally caught by baits suited to their several likings, 3395 v, 8 | this mode of copulation suits them in consequence of the 3396 IX, 49B| are worn.~But evermore, in sullen discontent,~He seeks the 3397 III, 3 | penis."~The above quotations sum up pretty well the statements 3398 VII, 3 | differences that may be summed up as differences of degree.~ 3399 VIII, 14| take their winter-sleep or summer-sleep by concealing themselves 3400 VI, 16 | to the water’s edge that sun-heat has its chief power and 3401 v, 18 | centre, and are not easily sundered from one another: for the 3402 VIII, 20| the water, is liable to sunstroke, and is paralysed by a loud 3403 VI, 37 | breeding. When they are super-abundant, nothing succeeds in thinning 3404 IV, 11 | fish are regarded as of super-excellent quality.~Again, just as 3405 VIII, 1 | alike. If sensibility be superadded, then their lives will differ 3406 IX, 40 | combs all even, with the superficial covering quite smooth. Each 3407 v, 9 | where the female can become superfoetally impregnated.~In like manner 3408 VI, 33 | and bear at all seasons, superfoetate during pregnancy, and bear 3409 IX, 1 | two exceptional cases, the superiority in courage rests with the 3410 v, 32 | the snail so is the whole superstructure with our grub; and they 3411 III, 19 | if any of these maladies supervene, the menses are imperfectly 3412 VI, 23 | covered by the ass, the horse supervening will not spoil the embryo. 3413 VI, 18 | supervenes, and it is by this supervention that the shepherd knows 3414 VIII, 2 | another; we must accordingly supplement our definition of the term " 3415 VI, 9 | take every precaution, by supplying her with food, to prevent 3416 IV, 7 | and requires no extraneous support. However, insects have a 3417 VI, 8 | whole period; the male bird supports the female, bringing her 3418 IX, 29 | one, she makes of him a supposititious child in an alien nest. 3419 VII, 11 | And patients who during suppression of the menses happen to 3420 v, 31 | cases where the body is surcharged with moisture; and, indeed, 3421 VIII, 29| scorpion of Caria, it will surely die.~There is great variety 3422 III, 4 | connexion that, when the surgeon opens this vein in the forearm, 3423 IV, 8 | either by oar or by the surging of their boats through the 3424 v, 5 | of actual observation to surmise that the female becomes 3425 I, 15 | of the other senses he is surpassed by a great number of animals.~ 3426 II, 11 | numerous and strong, and surpassing in respect of number and 3427 IV, 10 | owing to their having been surprised when sleeping; for it is 3428 IV, 8 | until the shoal has been surrounded. And, at times, when they 3429 VII, 10 | out into the cord and its surroundings. But experienced midwives 3430 VII, 1 | this age have much need of surveillance. For then in particular 3431 VII, 12 | has now a better chance of survival. This malady is worst at 3432 VII, 4 | first died and the other two survived.~Some also have been known 3433 v, 5 | existence by the spawn that survives this process. On the coast 3434 VII, 4 | have as good a chance of surviving as though both had been 3435 IX, 44 | He is totally devoid of suspicion or nervous fear, is fond 3436 v, 2 | the hind only very rarely sustains the mounting of the stag 3437 VII, 4 | way, it is customary to swaddle them in wool,-and many of 3438 IX, 40 | among these. When they have swarmed, they fly away and separate 3439 IX, 40 | quitting of the hive and the swarmflight. Separate detachments of 3440 IX, 32 | name of "duck-killer" and "swart-eagle." It is mentioned by Homer 3441 III, 21 | for nursing purposes; and swarthy women give healthier milk 3442 IV, 1 | cling by them to a rock and sway about in the rough water 3443 III, 19 | exude through the pores like sweat. In some cases blood, when 3444 v, 22 | all other flowers that are sweet-tasted, without doing injury to 3445 v, 30 | nymph), and the creature is sweetest to the taste at this stage 3446 v, 22 | once, from its peculiar sweetness and consistency.~The bee 3447 I, 1 | honey and certain other sweets, and the spider lives by 3448 III, 1 | through the tube, lifts and swells out; in the smaller birds 3449 II, 1 | forwards, with a slight swerve on one side. The flexion 3450 IX, 37 | mullets in their interior, the swiftest of fishes. Furthermore, 3451 II, 1 | trumpet; that it can run as swiftly as deer, and that it is 3452 VIII, 21| animal gives up eating. The swineherds know but one way to cure 3453 VIII, 6 | When suckling their young, swinelike all other animals-get attenuated. 3454 IX, 39 | legs and keeps watch while swinging downwards from the web: 3455 VI, 18 | together, are continually switching their tails, their neigh 3456 VI, 3 | distinguished, and in it the eyes, swollen out to a great extent. This 3457 III, 19 | animals fall into a faint or swoon; if it be removed or if 3458 IV, 1 | sepium, and in the other the "sword". They differ from one another, 3459 VI, 2 | vermilion.~Eggs are not symmetrically shaped at both ends: in 3460 VI, 2 | story is told of a toper in Syracuse, how he used to put eggs 3461 IX, 40 | pear-trees, beans, Median-grass, Syrian-grass, yellow pulse, myrtle, poppies, 3462 VI, 24 | followed up by parturition. In Syrophoenicia she-mules submit to the 3463 VI, 13 | the young fishes are like tadpoles in shape, and at first, 3464 IX, 13 | on trees, out of hair and tags of wool; when acorns are 3465 IV, 2 | portion has five flaps, or tail-fins; and the inner or under 3466 I, 5 | instrumentality of their tail-parts; and they swim most rapidly 3467 IV, 7 | is in no way modified by tail-steerage, and the wing is devoid 3468 II, 8 | baboon. The monkey is a tailed ape. The baboon resembles 3469 IX, 32 | curved wings, and broad tailfeathers; it lives near the sea, 3470 v, 32 | garments, and some resembling tailless scorpions, but very small. 3471 v, 5 | flat and furnished with tails-as the ray, the trygon, and 3472 v, 17 | middleways; for at both ends, tailwards and trunkwards, there are 3473 VIII, 8 | clover is sure to get the taint of the water. Cattle like 3474 II, 8 | biped, except nor yet a tal by the way that it has a 3475 VIII, 30| caught weighing fifteen talents, with the span of its tail 3476 I, 11 | a tendency to irrelevant talk or chattering. The part 3477 IV, 9 | while the capability of talking implies the capability of 3478 IX, 41 | are workers, as with the tamer kind; but it is by observation 3479 v, 10 | the shore, in weedy and tangled spots. The orphus also, 3480 VIII, 2 | summer from the pools to the tanks they will die; but not so 3481 IX, 48 | attachment to boys, in and about Tarentum, Caria, and other places. 3482 I, 11 | tongue; if the object to be tasted be placed on the flat surface 3483 VIII, 20| will die within a day after tasting the fresh water. The murex 3484 IX, 7 | young are grown, they will teach their young to shift their 3485 VIII, 3 | coot, the grebe, and the teal-a bird resembling the duck 3486 IX, 36 | to share with them, they tear their nets in pieces as 3487 v, 8 | sleep~In winter; and this temperate interlude~Men call the Holy 3488 I, 1 | the ox; others are quick tempered, ferocious and unteachable, 3489 VI, 2 | from soft to hard with such temporal exactitude that, whereas 3490 VII, 1 | be safeguarded from one temptation and another; for the passages 3491 IV, 4 | adheres to the shell so tenaciously that it can only be removed 3492 v, 14 | and, if she be carefully tended, up to eleven years; in 3493 III, 5 | one, is that called "the tendon", and others are those brought 3494 v, 18 | roe in shape like a vine tendril. It lays or spirts out the 3495 v, 18 | structure resembling the tendrils of a young vine or the fruit 3496 IX, 32 | visit made by Priam to the tent of Achilles. There is another 3497 IX, 40 | anthrene (or hornet), and the tenthredo (or ground-wasp); three 3498 VIII, 27| a species nicknamed the teredo, or "borer", with which 3499 IV, 8 | sockets of the eyes, and terminating at the upper eye-teeth). 3500 VIII, 4 | Animals that are coated with tessellates-such as the lizard and the other 3501 VIII, 17| to be the case with the testaceous kind, as for instance with 3502 VIII, 24| animal is subject also to tetanus: the veins get rigid, as