[1452]. Ælian. de Nat. Animal. xv. 11.
[1453]. Ovalle, i. 17. Baumgarten, i. 4. Aristot. Hist. Anim. iv. p, 109. Plin. Nat. Hist. ix. 20, seq.
[1454]. According to Oppian, however, most species of fish, like the Olympian Zeus, refuse to submit to the chains of sleep, and keep their intellectual faculties perpetually on the stretch. But the Scaros, he allows, is occasionally caught napping. Halieut. ii. 656.
[1455]. Aristot. Hist. Animal. iv. 10. p. 109.
[1456]. Plin. Nat. Hist. ix. 85.
[1457]. Oppian. Halieut. iii. 205, sqq.
[1458]. Athen. vii. 86, seq.
[1459]. Remarkable for its voracity. Lucian. Dial. Mort. viii. The sea-dog was classed by Linnæus among the amphibia; but Spallanzani and M. Vicq-d-Azyr, restored it, upon more accurate observation, to its place among the fishes. Travels in the Two Sicilies, iv. 379.
[1460]. Schol. Aristoph. Eq. 361.
[1461]. Chandler, i. 85. Cf. 151. Osbeck, Voyage to China, i. 199.