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 1   I,  3 |          at all, as the classes of fish and of serpents, but only
 2   I,  3 |           also internally, and all fish that lay eggs externally)
 3   I,  4 |      serpents have testes nor have fish; for they have been seen
 4   I,  6 |      speedy. Such is the nature of fish and serpents. Fish copulate
 5   I,  6 |       nature of fish and serpents. Fish copulate throwing themselves
 6   I,  6 |      before emitting the semen, so fish at such times must cease
 7   I,  7 |          slower in copulation than fish, not only on account of
 8   I,  8 |           cartilaginous viviparous fish have it higher up near the
 9   I,  8 |       ovipara, again, it is low in fish (as in women and the viviparous
10   I,  10|           10~But the cartilaginous fish and the vipers produce their
11   I,  12|            the scaly integument of fish and reptiles, then the testes
12   I,  16|         with most of the oviparous fish and oviparous quadrupeds
13  II,  4 |            marks the cartilaginous fish, of which we must speak
14 III,  1 |           low, as in the oviparous fish, and sometimes high, as
15 III,  1 |        class). The same applies to fish as to birds, and so in them
16 III,  1 |            embryos being formed in fish also (though in a less degree)
17 III,  1 |       observed especially in river fish, for some are seen to have
18 III,  1 |         produce their egg perfect, fish imperfect, but the eggs
19 III,  1 |             The reason is that the fish kind is very fertile; now
20 III,  1 |         two-coloured, those of all fish are one-coloured. The cause
21 III,  1 |          also moister (such is the fish kind) we find the white
22 III,  1 |       earthy matter; therefore all fish eggs are of one colour,
23 III,  3 |       umbilicus of the now perfect fish is left attached to the
24 III,  3 |         and yolk are separate, but fish eggs are one-coloured, the
25 III,  3 |          some of the cartilaginous fish the egg is not detached
26 III,  3 |          alive; in these the young fish when perfected is still
27 III,  3 |            of development in those fish that produce a perfect egg
28 III,  4 |                4~Most of the other fish are externally oviparous,
29 III,  4 |       hatching. Hence the class of fish is prolific, for Nature
30 III,  4 |       destruction by numbers. Some fish actually burst because of
31 III,  4 |           size of the eggs, as the fish called "belone", for its
32 III,  5 |               5~A proof that these fish also are oviparous is the
33 III,  5 |          fact that even viviparous fish, such as the cartilaginous,
34 III,  5 |        erroneously assert that all fish are female except in the
35 III,  5 |          think that the females of fish differ from what are supposed
36 III,  5 |          think the like applies to fish except the cartilaginous,
37 III,  5 |           any of the cartilaginous fish that are oviparous, produce
38 III,  5 |          them, whereas the eggs of fish are imperfect and do so
39 III,  5 |        though to a less degree, in fish. But in both classes these
40 III,  5 |            when discharged, but in fish, because the eggs are imperfect
41 III,  5 |      copulation has been seen, for fish [when the tail part does
42 III,  5 |   Herodotus the storyteller, as if fish were conceived by the mother’
43 III,  7 |         Touching the generation of fish, the question may be raised,
44 III,  7 |          that in the cartilaginous fish neither the females are
45 III,  7 |        females of the one class of fish differ from the males and
46 III,  7 |        semen. But in the oviparous fish, as the females lay their
47 III,  7 |            internally but those of fish externally. The latter,
48 III,  7 |        still more imperfect than a fish’s egg. It is the male that
49 III,  7 |        indeed there is any kind of fish of such a nature as to generate
50 III,  8 |   Therefore those who say that all fish are female and lay eggs
51 III,  8 | consequence of copulation and that fish do not; if again they were
52 III,  8 |           the females, as the male fish do over the eggs, and it
53 III,  9 |           has been often stated of fish. With animals internally
54  IV,  1 |    vivipara, both land animals and fish. Now if Empedocles had not
55  IV,  1 |     animals; I mean the classes of fish and of serpents.~To suppose,
56   V,  3 |         and scales in the class of fish.~For what purpose Nature
57   V,  6 |    condition exists also in birds, fish, and the other classes of
58   V,  6 |    leopards and peacocks, and some fish, e.g. the so-called "thrattai";