[265] We learn from Chapter [53] of this Book, that one class of the “Chamæ,” or gaping cockles, was known as “Pelorides.” Horace also mentions them.
[266] See B. xxxi. c. 46.
[267] See Note [251] above. Sillig would here read “tetheum,” apparently, in the singular.
[268] Described in B. xxvii. c. 29.
[269] A city not far from the Canopic branch of the Nile.
[270] “Dantur” seems a preferable reading to “datur.”
[271] See B. ix c. 42.
[272] Our crawfish, the Astacus potamobios of Leach.