Tiresias: The Ancient Mediterranean Religions Source Database

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Plutarch, Whether Land Or Sea Animals Are More Clever, 983c

nan But the halcyon, having but one simple instrument, one piece of equipment, one tool — her bill and nothing else, co‑operating with her industry and ingenuity — what she contrives and constructs would be hard to believe without ocular evidence, seeing the object that she moulds — or rather the ship that she builds. Of many possible forms, this alone cannot be capsized or even wet its cargo. She collects the spines of garfish and binds and weaves them together, some straight, others transverse, as if she were thrusting woven threads through the warp, adding such bends and knots of one with another that a compact, round unit is formed, slightly prolate in shape, like a fisherman's weel.

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altars,of horns	Hitch (2017) 22
athens	Hitch (2017) 22
bones	Hitch (2017) 22
bulls	Hitch (2017) 22
ephesos	Hitch (2017) 22
half sections of animals	Hitch (2017) 22
horns,altars of	Hitch (2017) 22
oaths	Hitch (2017) 22
pits	Hitch (2017) 22
rams	Hitch (2017) 22
thasos,passage des théores	Hitch (2017) 22
thesmophoria	Hitch (2017) 22
trittoia	Hitch (2017) 22
zooarchaeology'	Hitch (2017) 22