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[51] λάρος. A distinction is made between the “λάρος” and “αἴθυια” in the Peripl.pont. Eux.(33, ed. Müller); and Aristotle (Anim. Hist. 5. 9) does so even more explicitly, assigning to each a different breeding season. αἴθυια, inf. 337, must be a bird that dives, perhaps the mergus. λάρος may be the gull (larus) or the tern (sterna), neither of which dives deep. In modern Greece the gull is still called “γλάρος”. Pliny appears to refer to the “λάρος” where he says, ‘gaviae in petris nidificant . . aestate’ Hist. 10. 32, 48.

Homer's Odyssey. W. Walter Merry. James Riddell. D. B. Monro. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1886-1901.

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