Latin Texts & Translations

Those animals, however, it must be admitted, which lie enclosed in a stony shell, have no sensation whatever—such as the oyster, ^[Note] for instance. Many, again, have the same nature as vegetables; such as the holothuria, ^[Note] the pulmones, ^[Note] and the sea-stars. ^[Note] Indeed, I may say that there is no land produc-

tion which has not its like in the sea; ^[Note] no, not even those insects which frequent our public-houses ^[Note] in summer, and are so trouble- some with their nimble leaps, nor yet those which more especially make the human hair their place of refuge; for these are often drawn up in a mass ^[Note] collected around the bait. This, too, is supposed to be the reason why the sleep of fish is sometimes so troubled in the night. Upon some fish, indeed, these animals breed ^[Note] as parasites: among these, we find the fish known as the chalcis. ^[Note]