[152] ἐν ὑαλώδεσι τύποις. Schneidewin suggests τόποις unreasonably. Many alabaster jars are nearly transparent.
[153] Cf. Aristotle, De Hist. Animal., V, 10, 2. Said to be Coryphæna hippurus.
[154] The hiatus leaves us in doubt how this operated. Perhaps it liberated free ammonia.
[155] Reading ἐπίπλοον βοείου instead of, with Cruice, ἐπίπλεον βώλου, “filled with clay.”
[156] ἀφανὲς, “unapparent.”
[157] ἀπηνέχθημεν. An admission that this chapter was an afterthought.
[158] ὡς εἰκάσαι, ἐστι, ut patet, Cr.
[159] θεολόγοι. It does not mean “theologians” in our sense, but narrator of stories about the gods. Orpheus is always considered a θεολόγος.
[160] ποδαπός. Not, as Cruice translates, quale, which would be better expressed by the ποίον of Aristotle.
[161] τὸ σύμπαν αὐτὸ.