{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0545.tlg002.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0545.tlg002.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0545.tlg002.local001","title":"Ποικίλη ἱστορία","titleGreek":"Ποικίλη ἱστορία","alternateTitles":[],"author":"Aelian","authorityName":"Claudius AELIANUS Soph.","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0545-claudius-aelianus/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0545-claudius-aelianus/","editors":["Rudolf Hercher","Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Trustees of Tufts University","sourceTitle":"Claudii Aeliani Varia Historia Epistolae Fragmenta","edition":null,"publisher":"Teubner","place":"Leipzig","date":"1866","volume":"2","series":null,"citation":null,"citationShort":null},"rights":{"text":"Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},"provenance":{"authority":"Perseus Project","sponsors":["Perseus Project, Tufts University"],"funders":["Google Digital Humanities Awards Program"],"principal":"Gregory Crane","responsibilities":[{"role":"Prepared under the supervision of","names":["Bridget Almas","Lisa Cerrato","Rashmi Singhal"]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://archive.org/details/deanimaliumantur02aeliuoft/page/2/mode/2up","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Aelian. Ποικίλη ἱστορία. ed. Rudolf Hercher, Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff. Claudii Aeliani Varia Historia Epistolae Fragmenta, Leipzig, Teubner, 1866. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0545.tlg002.local001","excerpt":"δεινοὶ κατὰ κοιλίαν εἰσὶν οἱ πολύποδες, καὶ πᾶν ὅ τι οὖν φαγεῖν ἄμαχοι. πολλάκις γοῦν οὐδὲ ἀλλήλων ἀπέχονται, ἀλλὰ τῷ μείζονι ὁ βραχύτερος ἁλοὺς καὶ ἐμπεσὼν τοῖς ἀνδρειοτέροις θηράτροις τοῖς καλουμένοις τοῦ ἰχθύος πλοκάμοις, εἶτα αὐτῷ γίνεται δεῖπνον. ἐλλοχῶσι δὲ οἱ πολύποδες καὶ τοὺς ἰχθῦς τὸν τρόπον τοῦτον. ὑπὸ ταῖς πέτραις κάθηνται, καὶ ἑαυτοὺς ἐς τὴν ἐκείνων μεταμορφοῦσι χρόαν, καὶ τοῦτο εἶναι δοκοῦσιν, ὅπερ οὖν καὶ πεφύκασιν αἱ πέτραι. οἱ τοίνυν ἰχθῦς προσνέουσιν οἱονεὶ τῇ πέτρᾳ τοῖς πολύποσιν, οἳ δὲ ἀφυλάκτους ὄντας αὐτοὺς περιβάλλουσι ταῖς ἐξ ἑαυτῶν ἄρκυσι ταῖς πλεκτάναις. ὑφαντικὴν καὶ ὑφαίνειν, δῶρα Ἐργάνης δαίμονος, οὔτε ἴσασιν αἱ φάλαγγες οὔτε εἰδέναι βούλονται. ἢ τί ποτʼ ἂν καὶ χρήσαιτο τῷ τοιῷδε ἐσθήματι τὸ τοιοῦτον θηρίον; τὸ δὲ ἄρα πάγη καὶ οἱονεὶ κύρτος ἐστὶ τοῖς ἐμπίπτουσι. καὶ ἣ μὲν ἀρκυωρεῖ πάνυ σφόδρα ἀτρεμοῦσα, καὶ ἔοικεν ἀκινήτῳ· καὶ τὸ μὲν ἐνέπεσεν, ὅ τί ποτέ…","divisions":[{"label":"Book 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0545.tlg002.local001/#tlg0545-tlg002-local001-1"},{"label":"Book 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0545.tlg002.local001/#tlg0545-tlg002-local001-2"},{"label":"Book 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0545.tlg002.local001/#tlg0545-tlg002-local001-3"},{"label":"Book 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0545.tlg002.local001/#tlg0545-tlg002-local001-4"},{"label":"Book 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0545.tlg002.local001/#tlg0545-tlg002-local001-5"},{"label":"Book 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0545.tlg002.local001/#tlg0545-tlg002-local001-6"},{"label":"Book 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0545.tlg002.local001/#tlg0545-tlg002-local001-7"},{"label":"Book 8","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0545.tlg002.local001/#tlg0545-tlg002-local001-8"},{"label":"Book 9","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0545.tlg002.local001/#tlg0545-tlg002-local001-9"},{"label":"Book 10","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0545.tlg002.local001/#tlg0545-tlg002-local001-10"},{"label":"Book 11","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0545.tlg002.local001/#tlg0545-tlg002-local001-11"},{"label":"Book 12","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0545.tlg002.local001/#tlg0545-tlg002-local001-12"},{"label":"Book 13","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0545.tlg002.local001/#tlg0545-tlg002-local001-13"},{"label":"Book 14","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0545.tlg002.local001/#tlg0545-tlg002-local001-14"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0545.tlg002.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0545.tlg002.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0545/tlg002/local001.json.gz"}}