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3503 IV, 6 | 6~The so-called tethyum or ascidian has of all these 3504 v, 30 | in the ground, becomes a tettigometra (or nymph), and the creature 3505 v, 30 | and the small cicada the "tettigonium" or cicadelle. And, by the 3506 IV, 1 | bigger than the teuthis; for teuthi have been found as much 3507 VI, 21 | male about the month of Thargelion or of Scirophorion; some, 3508 v, 17 | Hellespont and on the coast of Thasos, and crawfish in the neighbourhood 3509 II, 1 | owing to this circumstance that-an exceptional instance, by 3510 VI, 14 | and the male with sperm. The-carp spawns as the seasons come 3511 VI, 14 | or fifty days to prevent the-spawn being devoured by such little 3512 II, 1 | in the neighbourhood of Thebes, while in point of fact 3513 VI, 2 | rubbish about all round them-and this, by the way, they do 3514 v, 22 | twice a month. (The bees in Themiscyra, on the banks of the river 3515 VI, 15 | Salamis and near the tomb of Themistocles and at Marathon; for in 3516 VIII, 7 | their hide, and air blown thereinto. Cattle will fatten also 3517 I, 3 | others an organ analogous thereto. The above-mentioned organs, 3518 III, 1 | and the ducts descending thereunto; the ducts extending from 3519 IV, 4 | mussel, and others have thick-lipped shells, like the oyster. 3520 VI, 18 | other words deliberately thickening their hide by rubbing against 3521 VI, 20 | lining. The milk at first is thickish, but gets thinner by degrees; 3522 I, 15 | double-knobbed part is termed the "thigh-bone", the sliding part of the " 3523 IV, 4 | the lips; for some have thin-lipped shells, like the mussel, 3524 IX, 8 | lame: the man every moment thinks he is on the point of catching 3525 VI, 37 | super-abundant, nothing succeeds in thinning them down except the rain; 3526 VIII, 10| that they drink more when thirsty), and in autumn they get 3527 v, 14 | a rule, lives for about thirty-five years, and the mare for 3528 v, 14 | capable up to the age of thirty-three years, and the mare up to 3529 III, 3 | lines:—~(Antilochus, as Thoon turned him round),~Transpierc’ 3530 III, 20 | case of what are designated thori in fishes.~Whatever animals 3531 IX, 8 | eggs-they cover it over with thorns and sticks for security 3532 IX, 50 | Asia have as many as three thousand camels: when they run, they 3533 VIII, 3 | to wit, the linnet, the thraupis, and the goldfinch. All 3534 IX, 40 | failure in the supply be threatening and the hive runs short 3535 III, 7 | sutures, uniting above in three-corner fashion; and instances have 3536 IX, 37 | no scarus is found, nor thritta, nor any other species of 3537 IX, 6 | of birds; it tears their throats open, as wolves do with 3538 IX, 29 | young cuckoo has grown big, thrusts her own brood out of the 3539 VIII, 20| paralysed by a loud peal of thunder. The carp is subject to 3540 VI, 2 | mothers than others. If it thunders while a hen-bird is brooding, 3541 IX, 3 | their hands, for if, when a thunderstorm comes on, a ewe stays behind 3542 v, 22 | twenty days. The taste of thyme-honey is discernible at once, 3543 v, 19 | in unusual numbers.~The tick is generated from couch-grass. 3544 VII, 10 | does not even notice being tickled, but passes most of its 3545 VII, 10 | place where it has been tied it heals up, and the remaining 3546 IX, 39 | set in motion, it first ties and wraps the creature round 3547 v, 16 | obviously with the object of tightening its hold. Some persons express 3548 IX, 19 | it lives on cliffs or on tile roofings; it has not a red 3549 IX, 49B| silver plumage drest,~For, timely changing, on the hawk’s 3550 VIII, 21| this kind of spelt called tiphe; and this spelt, by the 3551 IX, 1 | the wild ones until they tire the latter completely. Hereupon 3552 VIII, 3 | put into their bills in tit-bits; as for instance, the eagle 3553 IX, 40 | wasps and the birds named titmice, and furthermore the swallow 3554 III, 1 | than the other just alluded to-a duct that bends back again 3555 IX, 36 | smooth-feathered", or "toad-catcher". Birds of this latter species 3556 I, 15 | particular appellation; of the toe, one portion is the "nail" 3557 VI, 33 | part Of the fissipeds or toed animals.~ 3558 VI, 15 | at Salamis and near the tomb of Themistocles and at Marathon; 3559 IV, 7 | it is provided with the tongue-like formation found in insects 3560 IV, 4 | fly; and the proboscis is tongue-shaped. The ceryx and the purple 3561 IV, 9 | such as have thin delicate tongues. In some cases, the male 3562 IX, 40 | victorious in a combat they took to carrying off the honey; 3563 III, 7 | to grave with a graving tool.~On the upper part of the 3564 III, 7 | one.) In the jaws is the tooth-system; and the teeth are constituted 3565 II, 1 | animals, also, are not double toothed, as the camel. Some animals 3566 VI, 2 | heaps. A story is told of a toper in Syracuse, how he used 3567 III, 7 | head is connected with the topmost vertebrae, and is designated 3568 IX, 32 | hereupon the parent-birds topple them out of the nest, and 3569 IX, 1 | the more if it brays, it topples the eggs and the brood out 3570 VI, 18 | wild at this time and turn topsy-turvy the dwellings of their keepers, 3571 IX, 44 | in the line-" and glowing torches, which, though fierce he 3572 IV, 10 | fish may be captured by torchlight. The watchmen in the tunny-fishery 3573 v, 32 | drop off, but can only be torn off, as though they were 3574 VIII, 17| as is the shell of the tortoise-for, by the way, the tortoise 3575 v, 5 | has only one passage; and tortoises, by the way, belong to the 3576 IX, 37 | colliquefaction; it becomes stupid; if tossed about by waves, it submits 3577 IX, 45 | the size of its body. It tosses up dust and scoops out the 3578 IV, 8 | limited number of them. The total number of the senses (for 3579 IX, 44 | he is quite gentle. He is totally devoid of suspicion or nervous 3580 VIII, 12| stone when vomited up is a touchstone for gold.~The cushat and 3581 I, 12 | the flesh of the breast is tough, with the female it is soft 3582 IX, 23 | birds that live as a rule in towns, the raven and the crow. 3583 IV, 4 | been stated, are distinctly traceable in the larger species, while 3584 IX, 1 | their back they are all tractable, but after he has dismounted, 3585 VI, 2 | after laying-whereas pigeons trail their rumps on the ground, 3586 VIII, 24| this disease the animal trails its hind-legs under its 3587 VI, 19 | this duty the creature is trained from its earliest years. 3588 IX, 3 | sheepfold by reason of their training.~Even bulls, when they are 3589 VIII, 8 | from a stream until he has trampled it into a turbid condition. 3590 v, 19 | suffers a metamorphosis, and transforms into a winged insect named 3591 III, 2 | fleshy parts; when it is transmitted to the organs above-mentioned, 3592 III, 3 | Thoon turned him round),~Transpierc’d his back with a dishonest 3593 I, 17 | organs have been found in a transposed position. These organs are 3594 IX, 23 | mentioned birds; and is trapped usually in the winter. All 3595 III, 3 | origins in the heart, for they traverse the other viscera, in whatever 3596 III, 4 | one case is the vein that traverses the liver, while in this 3597 VI, 2 | so-called "hail-stones", or treadles, that are found at the extremity 3598 I, 1 | catch their food, others treasure it up; whereas others do 3599 IV, 4 | the duct of which we are treating is white and the egg-mass 3600 IX, 39 | their body as a kind of tree-bark, like the creatures that 3601 IX, 5 | longer rub them against tree-trunks they quit their hiding places, 3602 VI, 3 | vein-ducts with blood in them trend in a convoluted course ( 3603 VIII, 13| and enter the Euxine. The trichiae, however, only can be caught 3604 IX, 46 | can be taught a number of tricks, the drift and meaning of 3605 IX, 1 | cuttle-fish is struck with the trident the male stands by to help 3606 IX, 5 | the fourth year they grow trifurcate; and so they go on increasing 3607 VIII, 2 | feeds on the leavings of the trigle or red mullet. The red mullet 3608 VII, 2 | longer, the ailment is more troublesome. For women are ailing during 3609 v, 15 | are most numerous in the trough shaped mussel. In the pinna 3610 v, 17 | both ends, tailwards and trunkwards, there are two intervals 3611 I, 15 | we have not received any trustworthy evidence.~Man, then, has 3612 III, 3 | blood-vessels lie above the tubes that extend from the windpipe. 3613 II, 12 | birds fly with their feet tucked up close to the belly; but 3614 VI, 22 | it is put to by the hard tugging of the young; an ordinary 3615 VII, 1 | strings are frayed and out of tune; and it is called, by way 3616 VII, 1 | and a maid’s flute is tuned sharper than a lad’s.~Girls 3617 VIII, 13| caught during their exit.~Tunny-fish swim into the Euxine keeping 3618 IV, 10 | torchlight. The watchmen in the tunny-fishery often take advantage of 3619 VIII, 2 | quite empty into the sea: in twenty-four hours it will be found to 3620 v, 33 | animal attains the length of twenty-six feet; in fact, it is actually 3621 v, 32 | walking about. But these twig-like formations are naturally 3622 VI, 19 | ewe or the she-goat is a twin-bearer. Of these animals some give 3623 VI, 19 | ram or the he-goat is a twin-begetter or that the ewe or the she-goat 3624 IV, 2 | about as thick as ordinary twine; and underneath there are 3625 II, 11 | cutaneous envelope. It keeps twisting its eyes round and shifting 3626 IX, 34 | that refuses to do so, and twists him back in the sun’s direction; 3627 VIII, 24| the case of the male, a twitching of the right testicle.~Stall-reared 3628 I, 4 | either destitute of feet, or two-footed, or four-footed; other animals 3629 VII, 8 | for instance fishes; but two-legged animals lie in a bent position, 3630 IX, 50 | otherwise, they turn out uglier and smaller. Steers are 3631 IX, 15 | awkward in flight and has an ugly plumage.~ 3632 VI, 20 | representing the dog of Ulysses as having died in his twentieth 3633 VII, 10 | weak, and when before the umbilical cord has been ligatured, 3634 VI, 37 | Their disappearance is unaccountable: in a few days not a mouse 3635 IV, 9 | sort by the mouth alone, unaided by the trunk, just like 3636 IX, 1 | in an awkward manner, not unattended with pain. It is at war 3637 VI, 18 | the human species as are unbridled in the way of sexual appetite. 3638 VIII, 7 | they are nicknamed the "unbulled" kine. Of these Pyrrhic 3639 IX, 17 | knowingness is regarded as uncanny; it has a numerous brood, 3640 IX, 50 | horns, the horns remain unchanged in size, and the animal 3641 VIII, 2 | water, with the water kept unchanged-just as animals that respire 3642 VII, 1 | children, but when thin and unclotted it is apt to produce female 3643 II, 1 | hippopotamus; others are uncloven of foot, such for instance 3644 II, 1 | either cloven-footed or uncloven-footed; for there are in Illyria 3645 IV, 4 | and runs its whole length uncomplicated to the outlet of the residuum. 3646 III, 19 | in fact, nothing else but unconcocted blood: either blood that 3647 IX, 40 | keep brooding over the part undamaged, the damaged part simply 3648 IX, 13 | the roots, and makes an under-mattress to lie on of hair and wool. 3649 IV, 10 | allowing the glistening under-parts of their bodies to become 3650 IX, 45 | but rougher. It has an undercoat of woolly hair. The animal 3651 III, 19 | Blood at its best, before it undergoes deterioration from either 3652 v, 15 | from the animal, to have undergone a process like boiling. 3653 IV, 11 | be termed hinder-parts or underparts. And this statement is applicable 3654 VII, 1 | young men and women produce undersized and imperfect progeny, as 3655 v, 14 | cattle. And we can thus understand the change of voice in animals 3656 IX, 46 | and meaning of which it understands; as, for instance, it can 3657 IX, 49 | a cock has been seen to undertake the maternal duties, leading 3658 IV, 8 | words it is osseous and undetached. In some fish the palate 3659 IX, 41 | case of the other was left undetermined. The wasp-grub does not 3660 VII, 12 | white, especially when taken undiluted; and most things that tend 3661 III, 2 | nature of the chief veins is undiscoverable, owing to the fact that 3662 IX, 45 | property; when the animal is undisturbed it has no blistering effect. 3663 II, 1 | the mule, and, among the undomesticated horned animals, the bison.~ 3664 VII, 10 | day; and this excrement is unduly copious in comparison with 3665 VI, 37 | numbers by fumigating and unearthing them, or by regularly hunting 3666 IV, 5 | all cases is altogether uneatable, or more or less unpalatable. 3667 II, 17 | those animals whose jaws are unequally furnished with teeth are 3668 VI, 15 | maenis and the mullet.~The unfertile fry is watery and keeps 3669 III, 18 | female, are more or less unfitted for breeding purposes. Animals 3670 VI, 29 | animal remains sound and uninjured.~ 3671 IX, 42 | With regard to their sexual unions, and the method of their 3672 v, 14 | time, in other words it is uniparous. And the embryo is the size 3673 III, 2 | vein; next in degree of universality, their analogues, lymph 3674 IX, 17 | living, but in other ways an unlucky bird. The bird called sitta 3675 I, 1 | some are musical, and some unmusical; but all animals without 3676 I, 11 | Of the ear one part is unnamed, the other part is called 3677 IX, 40 | and, if they can do so unnoticed, enter and spoil the combs 3678 IV, 5 | uneatable, or more or less unpalatable. In reality the mouth-apparatus 3679 III, 8 | the gristle formations are unperforated, and there is no marrow 3680 v, 14 | fifteen years, they become unproductive, and are getting old. If 3681 VI, 1 | with crooked talons, are unprolific, except the kestrel: this 3682 II, 13 | selachians have the organ unprotected by a cover. And those fishes 3683 VIII, 2 | the air. Now it would be unreasonable to assign one and the same 3684 III, 2 | writers have treated them very unsatisfactorily. And the cause of the ignorance 3685 VI, 29 | the flesh of the deer is unsavoury and rank, like the flesh 3686 v, 14 | be fat, are more or less unserviceable for breeding; and this, 3687 IV, 7 | in others the wings are unsheathed, as in the bee. But in the 3688 VI, 21 | the cow; if his effort be unsuccessful, the cow must be allowed 3689 I, 1 | tempered, ferocious and unteachable, as the wild boar; some 3690 VI, 13 | plain that the assertion is untenable which is made by some writers, 3691 v, 15 | and finds its way into untenanted shells. As it grows it shifts 3692 IX, 40 | the hive all idlers and unthrifts. As has been said, they 3693 v, 30 | locust lays its eggs in untilled lands, and this fact may 3694 v, 30 | and the female that is unvocal. At first, the males are 3695 v, 16 | named the "aplysia" or the "unwashable", from the circumstance 3696 v, 19 | fabric with the threads thus unwound; a Coan woman of the name 3697 III, 3 | through the lower part of the upper-arms to the armpits, and so on, 3698 VI, 18 | indicate the fact by the upraising of their genital organs, 3699 II, 8 | found on all fours than upright. It has neither hips, inasmuch 3700 IX, 14 | so that even if the nest upset the sea does not enter in; 3701 VIII, 15| sea at this period being upturned from the lower depths. This 3702 I, 12 | larynx land the back part the ur The front part, composed 3703 I, 17 | two considerable ducts or ureters into the bladder; and others 3704 VI, 2 | called by some cynosura and uria are produced chiefly in 3705 III, 20 | then after an interval of usefulness it becomes unfit for use 3706 VII, 2 | discharge instead of being utilized in these other ways.~There 3707 I, 11 | and inflamed it is called "uvula" or "bunch of grapes", and 3708 v | Book V~ 3709 v, 16 | all over their bodies; for vacant pore-spaces intervene. There 3710 I, 15 | others they do so, but in a vague way. For instance, the head 3711 VIII, 12| their companions in the van.~Fishes also in a similar 3712 VIII, 5 | cut open an overpowering vapour exhales from its inside.~ 3713 v, 11 | further, conception in these variant seasons is not so prolific. 3714 VIII, 12| suit cold and heat and the variations of the seasons. For all 3715 VII, 11 | to their suffering from varices, when the fluids issue from 3716 IV, 1 | two,-the other nicknamed variously the bolitaina or the "onion," 3717 III, 19 | blood is contained in a vascular system, to wit, the veins, 3718 v, 16 | decay, like all similar vegetable-like growths. And this accounts 3719 VIII, 19| for them just as it is for vegetation-for, by the way, kitchen vegetables, 3720 III, 1 | From the aorta there extend vein-like ducts to the head of each 3721 III, 4 | equally good for the entire vein-system in all these animals. For, 3722 III, 4 | delicate hollow fibre-like veinlets.~There is no vessel that 3723 III, 4 | the groins-large hollow veins-and then pass on down through 3724 I, 15 | the flesh is sinewy and venous, in some cases drawn upwards 3725 IV, 3 | breadth, and in respect of the ventral flap; for this is larger 3726 II, 13 | visible teats, but has two vents, one on each flank, from 3727 III, 3 | Natural History who have not ventured to lay down the law in such 3728 IX, 37 | is the only mollusc that ventures on to dry land; it walks 3729 IX, 49B| the hills are taking on verdure, sings continually for fifteen 3730 VI, 18 | animals, it is difficult to verify the circumstance, and the 3731 VIII, 17| around the young of the vermipara, in the same way both with 3732 VI, 6 | them, as it is said in the verses ascribed to Musaeus:~That 3733 I, 7 | is called the crown or vertex. In some cases the parting 3734 IX, 41 | precipitous places, or in vertical clefts in the ground, and 3735 VI, 14 | sheat-fish is as big as a vetch-seed; the egg of the carp and 3736 VI | Book VI~ 3737 IX, 41 | and let him buzz with the vibration of his wings, wasps that 3738 IX, 1 | some are tame and others vicious; in the case of these latter, 3739 I, 17 | offer sacrifice with such victims are bewildered with fright, 3740 IX, 40 | hive. The little bees fight vigorously with the long kind, and 3741 VII | Book VII~ 3742 VIII | Book VIII~ 3743 v, 12 | Its spawn is shaped like a vine-tendril, and resembles the fruit 3744 v, 19 | engendered in the slime of vinegar.~And, by the way, living 3745 v, 30 | on which husbandmen prop vines, perforating the canes; 3746 VIII, 17| and again in the autumn. Vipers also slough off their skin 3747 I, 1 | since the whole also by virtue of its form is designated 3748 VII, 1 | disposition grow more sedate and virtuous after they have borne several 3749 VI, 14 | product becomes very sticky or viscous, and adheres to the roots 3750 IX, 8 | intact she refrains from visiting them. If she be seen by 3751 v, 21 | different hypotheses are in vogue. Some affirm that bees neither 3752 v, 19 | excrement after it has been voided, and some from excrement 3753 VII, 1 | experience pain as well as voluptuous sensations.) At the same 3754 VIII, 12| and that the stone when vomited up is a touchstone for gold.~ 3755 VIII, 2 | fishes the mullet is the most voracious and insatiable, and in consequence 3756 VIII, 3 | three may be described as "wag-tails". Then there is the scalidris, 3757 IX, 12 | on the sea-shore, as the wagtail; the bird is of a mischievous 3758 VI, 29 | pausing from time to time, and waits until his pursuer draws 3759 IV, 10 | go to sleep and that they waken up from sleep; for, as a 3760 VIII, 7 | the heat of the sun and wallowing in warm waters. If the horns 3761 v, 23 | they have no king, but are wandering about in search of one, 3762 VII, 2 | same time, and after the wane and the discharge both one 3763 VII, 2 | discharge in women and the waning of the moon happen at one 3764 IX, 50 | mutilated when they are wanted for war purposes, and are 3765 IX, 37 | he is on guard: for, in warding off the little fishes, he 3766 IX, 1 | funeral pyre): the cause of warfare is that the crex injures 3767 VI, 34 | pregnant. After parturition she warms her young and gets them 3768 IX, 6 | go, it shakes its neck in warning, lest it should accidentally 3769 VIII, 2 | kind of a way to have got warped, just as some male animals 3770 VIII, 2 | out of the mud so as to wash the slime from off its body. 3771 IV, 8 | gregarious fishes, if fish washings or bilge-water be thrown 3772 IX, 41 | was left undetermined. The wasp-grub does not appear to come 3773 IX, 42 | anthrena-king, like the wasp-king, lives indoors. Anthrenae 3774 IX, 42 | proportion to themselves than are wasp-kings to wasps or bee-kings to 3775 VI, 13 | portion of them goes to waste in the water; but such of 3776 VI, 14 | portion of the spawn gets wasted; because, owing to the fact 3777 VIII, 30| great part of its flesh wastes away with age, and the same 3778 VIII, 30| away with age, and the same wasting is observed in all old fishes. 3779 I, 1 | others are cautious and watchful, as the goose; others are 3780 IX, 34 | catches them one by one, watching the moment when the bird 3781 IV, 10 | captured by torchlight. The watchmen in the tunny-fishery often 3782 III, 4 | passages get clogged, like water-channels choked with slush; and the 3783 IX, 34 | off by raising a shower of water-drops with their wings.~ 3784 VIII, 2 | the so-called cordylus or water-newt; this creature is furnished 3785 VIII, 3 | but less in size-and the water-raven or cormorant. This bird 3786 IX, 40 | come in their way by the water-side, and for this reason bee-keepers 3787 I, 1 | destitute of feet, as the water-snake. Some creatures get their 3788 II, 17 | resembles that of the fish; the water-snakes have it beside the liver, 3789 IX, 49B| both the dust-bath and the waterbath, as for instance the pigeon 3790 VI, 2 | that is to say, the eggs of waterbirds have comparatively more 3791 VIII, 19| vegetables, though artificially watered, derive benefit from rain; 3792 VIII, 28| rainless climate, at the watering-places, and there pair together; 3793 VIII, 3 | kingfishers live by the waterside. Of kingfishers there are 3794 VIII, 20| leading into a river, and wattled at the river end with reeds 3795 VIII, 20| aperture being left in the wattling through which the river 3796 IX, 37 | stupid; if tossed about by waves, it submits impassively; 3797 IX, 40 | empty, they build their waxen cells, bringing in the juice 3798 IV, 8 | skin-a thick one, by the way-be stripped off the head, about 3799 II, 1 | exceptional instance, by the way-he does not progress in early 3800 VIII, 28| very good authority, by the way-there are no swine, wild or tame, 3801 VI, 1 | prolific in either of two ways-either by laying often, as the 3802 VII, 9 | habits, and in those who are weak-chested and short of breath. Labour 3803 I, 1 | birds that resemble it are weak-footed and strong winged, such 3804 I, 16 | brain is the thinnest and weakest bone of the head, which 3805 VII, 4 | life, and most of them are weakly-for which reason, by the way, 3806 IV, 7 | rear use this organ as a weapon, (and, by the way, such 3807 VI, 6 | grow, the mother becomes wearied with feeding them and extrudes 3808 IX, 6 | as wolves do with sheep. Weasels fight desperately with mice-catching 3809 v, 19 | creatures, and afterwards weave a fabric with the threads 3810 VIII, 13| mullet, the wrasse, the weaver, the callionymus, the goby, 3811 IX, 37 | has a certain amount of web-growth, resembling the substance 3812 IX, 39 | lurking-place. Spiders can spin webs from the time of their birth, 3813 v, 8 | such of the species as spin webs-perform the operation in the following 3814 VIII, 19| as well. The fact is that weed-eating fishes find abundance of 3815 VIII, 19| that places abounding in weeds are wholesome; at all events, 3816 v, 10 | way, near the shore, in weedy and tangled spots. The orphus 3817 VII, 10 | old it neither laughs nor weeps during waking hours, but 3818 VIII, 30| old tunny has been caught weighing fifteen talents, with the 3819 IX, 13 | inhabitants attach leaden weights to the tips of their arrows 3820 VIII, 19| caught in a large haul of well-conditioned fish of their own species. 3821 II, 1 | and consequently has no well-formed huckle-bone. Of the cloven 3822 VII, 12 | are more than ordinarily well-nourished on rich or unusually plentiful 3823 v, 19 | engendered in the slime of wells, or in places where there 3824 v, 32 | accident to the creature as it went walking about. But these 3825 VIII, 10| the better if they have a westerly aspect.~Sheep will lose 3826 VI, 29 | their foreheads from getting wetted become black, as is also 3827 III, 20 | dolphin, the porpoise, and the whale-for these animals have breasts 3828 VIII, 9 | fodder, five medimni of wheat, and five mareis of wine-six 3829 VI, 17 | some places spawns about wheat-harvest. The statements here given 3830 v, 2 | peculiarly lecherous, and wheedles the male on to sexual commerce, 3831 I, 2 | the mouth, and the organ whereinto it is taken, the belly; 3832 IX, 4 | maternal fondness; in proof whereof a barren mare will steal 3833 I, 13 | the "rump", and the part whereon the thigh pivots is termed 3834 IX, 39 | Of all the other species wherewith poison-vendors supply themselves, 3835 VI, 15 | grubs swarm in manure; for which-reason this fry is often brought 3836 IV, 2 | they both have one claw, whichever it may be, larger than the 3837 IX, 32 | also silent, for it neither whimpers nor screams. There is another 3838 IX, 32 | hungry, and at all times whining and screaming. There is 3839 IX, 1 | an attack; it mimics the whinnying of the horse, flies at him, 3840 IX, 1 | crow’s, each having the whip-hand of the other, turn and turn 3841 IX, 40 | in the air in a stream, whirling round and round in a kind 3842 VII, 11 | happen to vomit blood are no whit the worse.~ 3843 VI, 13 | etelis, and all the so-called white-fish, and all the smooth or slippery 3844 VIII, 3 | schoenilus, the cinclus, and the white-rump. Of these smaller birds 3845 III, 11 | eruptive malady called the white-sickness all the hairs get grey; 3846 VI, 15 | sea, little fishes like whitebait, differing from the small 3847 IV, 9 | called "flying", makes a whizzing sound; and so does the sea-swallow 3848 IV, 4 | by observation within the whorl of the shell. What comes 3849 II, 13 | The mouth in some cases is wide-stretched, as it is with some viviparous 3850 II, 17 | also has the oesophagus widened out at the lower extremity, 3851 III, 3 | channel as a river that widens out in a lake. The aorta 3852 IX, 8 | they have the nickname of "widowers". The bird who is beaten 3853 VI, 7 | species builds a nest in the wilderness and on sheer and inaccessible 3854 VIII, 28| wild animals are at their wildest in Asia, at their boldest 3855 IX, 44 | in regard to tameness and wildness. The lion, while he is eating, 3856 VI, 14 | close to the roots of the willow or of some other tree, or 3857 IX, 40 | exuding sap of trees, such as willows and elms and such others 3858 IV, 8 | settles on a withered or wilted flower, but on fresh and 3859 VI, 18 | also about this time to get wind-impregnated if not impregnated by the 3860 II, 17 | supernatural.~In all animals the wind-pipe extends to the lung, and 3861 IV, 9 | makes a vocal sound of a windlike sort by the mouth alone, 3862 VI, 2 | that, when she stands to windward and within scent of the 3863 VIII, 7 | as figs, or pulp from the wine-press, or on elm-leaves. But nothing 3864 VIII, 9 | wheat, and five mareis of wine-six cotylae going to the maris. 3865 II, 12 | hands nor front feet, but wings-an exceptional structure as 3866 VIII, 7 | state or on barley finely winnowed, or on sweet food, such 3867 IX, 6 | When emerging from their winter-den, they at once take to eating 3868 VIII, 14| springtime.~Animals take their winter-sleep or summer-sleep by concealing 3869 VIII, 28| require to drink more in wintertime than in summer: for they 3870 IX, 40 | front legs; the front legs wipe it off on to the middle 3871 VIII, 1 | in man we find knowledge, wisdom, and sagacity, so in certain 3872 v, 5 | she is affected in this wise by the voice of the male, 3873 VII, 2 | and on this account the wiseacres assert that the moon is 3874 IX, 40 | but that they have the wish without the power, to use 3875 IX, 47 | foals were splendid; that wishing to mate the best of the 3876 III, 9 | such as birds are furnished with-all in the several animals that 3877 v, 2 | of the male in the act of withdrawing from underneath him; and, 3878 v, 22 | found, but honey, if it be withdrawn, is not replaced; now, after 3879 III, 11 | believe to be the case, imply withering or decrepitude, for no part 3880 VII, 3 | for the discharge to be withheld for an equal number of days, 3881 VI, 35 | low in stature; but not withstanding the shortness of its legs 3882 IX, 40 | myrtle, flowering-reed, withy, and broom. When they work 3883 IX, 49B| following lines:—~The Hoopoe, witness to his own distress,~Is 3884 IV, 8 | near the sea and frequently witnessing such phenomena, affirm that 3885 VII, 10 | but she must also have her wits about her in all contingencies, 3886 VIII, 24| hippomanes are due to old wives and to the venders of charms. 3887 IX, 39 | resembles the so-called wolf-spider, small, speckled, and tapering 3888 IX, 39 | comprising the so-called wolf-spiders.) Of these spiders the small 3889 VII, 1 | material. For when the signs of womanhood are nigh but not come, the 3890 v, 31 | they resemble multipedal wood-lice, only that their tail is 3891 IX, 44 | pursuers. If, however, he reach wooded cover, then he runs at full 3892 VIII, 3 | which are nicknamed the woodpeckers. These two birds resemble 3893 v, 19 | engendered in ill-scented woods. The conops comes from a 3894 IX, 39 | what corresponds to the woof, and then weaves the whole 3895 IX, 45 | It has an undercoat of woolly hair. The animal is not 3896 IX, 40 | and twice as big as the working-bee. The best workingbee is 3897 IX, 41 | After the birth of the working-grubs in the cells, the leaders 3898 v, 19 | this they technically term "working-up" the manure. The grub is 3899 IX, 40 | the working-bee. The best workingbee is small, round, and speckled: 3900 IX, 18 | in the quest of it, and works by day; its plumage is poor, 3901 IV, 11 | found with hair-like or worm-like progeny attached, make only 3902 IX, 1 | robbing it, with the fox for worrying it at night, and with the 3903 IX, 42 | the way, it would well be worth while to carry out investigation 3904 IV, 6 | summer weather they are worthless, for they become thin and 3905 v, 27 | strong basket which they have woven, and brood over it until 3906 II, 1 | core round which this is wrapped-the hard part-is derived from 3907 IX, 47 | after the intercourse the wrapping had been removed, though 3908 IX, 39 | motion, it first ties and wraps the creature round with 3909 VIII, 30| nicknamed the "goat".~The wrasses called the owzel and the 3910 VI, 25 | young; if it remains long wrinkled up, the animal is old.~ 3911 VIII, 24| malady are a sinking in and wrinkling of the lip in the middle 3912 I, 15 | hand and arm is termed the "wrist". The outside or back of 3913 III, 3 | the fore-arms on to the wrists and the jointings of the 3914 III, 22 | truth in what Ctesias has written about the sperm of the elephant.~ 3915 IX, 1 | mother-bird, to avenge this wrong, flies at the beast and 3916 IX, 2 | the mullet the injury is wrought by the basse, in that of 3917 II, 12 | front and two behind, as the wryneck.~This latter bird is somewhat 3918 III, 1 | bladder E; and the testicles XX.~(By the way, when the testicles 3919 IX, 45 | excrement to a distance of eight yards; this device it can easily 3920 VIII, 28| appalling; sailors spin a yarn to the effect that some 3921 IX, 6 | ground.~When the crocodile yawns, the trochilus flies into 3922 v, 15 | about six years; and the yearly increase is indicated by 3923 VI, 2 | the partridge; others are yellowish, as the eggs of marsh birds; 3924 IX, 40 | hive be too big. A hive yields to the bee-keeper six or 3925 VI, 3 | such partition, and the yokes run into one another. There 3926 v, 14 | when ten years old at the youngest, and when fifteen at the 3927 VI, 2 | Wind-eggs are called by some zephyr-eggs, because at spring-time 3928 IX, 49B| own distress,~Is clad by Zeus in variable dress:-~Now 3929 VIII, 24| chalcis" by some, and "zignis" by others-either causes 3930 VIII, 2 | the saupe feeds also on zostera, and is the only fish that