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Nor am I unaware that all fishes are called by one generic name, camasenes, by Empedocles the natural philosopher, when he says— How could the mighty trees and sea-born camasenes . . . And the poet, too, who wrote the Cyprian poems (whether he was a Cyprian or a man of the name of Stasinus, or whatever else his name may have been, represents Nemesis as pursued by Jupiter, and metamorphosed into a fish, in the following lines:— And after them she brought forth Helen third, A marvel to all mortal men to see; Her then the fair-hair'd Nemesis did bear, Compell'd by Jove, the sovereign of the gods. She indeed fled, nor sought to share the love Of that great father, son of Saturn, Jove; For too great awe did overpower her mind: So Nemesis did flee o'er distant lands, And o'er the black and barren waves o' the sea; But Jove pursued her (and with eagerness His soul desired her). In vain she took The form of some large fish who bounds along, Borne on the vast high-crested roaring wave; Sometimes she fled along the ocean, where The earth's most distant boundaries extend; Sometimes she fled along the fertile land; And took all shapes of every animal Which the land bears, to flee from amorous Jove.
