animals

Tuesday, August 08, 2006

Of fishes whose habitat is in the vicinity of rocks there is a
tiny one, which some call the Echeneis, or 'ship-holder', and which is
by some people used as a charm to bring luck in affairs of law and
love. The creature is unfit for eating. Some people assert that it has
feet, but this is not the case: it appears, however, to be furnished
with feet from the fact that its fins resemble those organs.

So much, then, for the external parts of blooded animals, as
regards their numbers, their properties, and their relative
diversities.