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Ἀριστοτέλης δέ φησι καὶ ἐν ἄμμῳ
αὐτὰς γίνεσθαι. τῶν δὲ χημῶν μνημονεύει Ἴων ὁ Χῖος ἐν Ἐπιδημίαις. καὶ ἴσως οὕτως ὠνόμασται τὰ κογχύλια παρὰ τὸ κεχηνέναι.
45. περὶ δὲ τῶν κατὰ τὴν Ἰνδικὴν γινομένων
ὀστρέων—ου᾽ γὰρ ἄκαιρον καὶ τούτων μνησθῆναι διὰ τὴν τῶν μαργαριτῶν χρῆσιν Θεόφραστος μὲν ἐν τῷ περὶ λίθων γράφει οὕτως : ‘ τῶν θαυμαζομένων δὲ λίθων ἐστὶν καὶ ὁ μαργαρίτης
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καλούμενος, διαφανὴς μὲν τῇ φύσει: ποιοῦσι δ᾽ ἐξ αὐτοῦ τοὺς πολυτελεῖς ὅρμους. γίνεται δὲ ἐν ὀστρέῳ τινὶ παραπλησίῳ ταῖς πίνναις, πλὴν ἐλάττονι. μέγεθος δὲ ἡλίκον ἰχθύος ὀφθαλμὸς εὐμεγέθης.’ Ἀνδροσθένης δ᾽ ἐν τῷ τῆς Ἰνδικῆς Παράπλῳ γράφει οὕτως: ‘ τῶν δὲ στρόμβων καὶ χοιρίνων καὶ τῶν λοιπῶν κογχυλίων ποικίλαι αἱ ἰδέαι καὶ πολὺ διάφοροι τῶν παρ᾽ ἡμῖν γίνονται δὲ πορφύραι τε καὶ ὀστρέων πολὺ πλῆθος τῶν λοιπῶν ἓν δὲ ἴδιον ὃ καλοῦσιν ἐκεῖνοι βέρβερι, ἐξ οὗ ἡ μαργαρῖτις λίθος γίνεται, αὕτη δ᾽ ἐστὶ πολυτελὴς κατὰ τὴν Ἀσίαν καὶ πωλεῖται περὶ Πέρσας τε καὶ τοὺς ἄνω τόπους πρὸς χρυσίον. ἐστὶ δ᾽ ἡ μὲν τοῦ ὀστρέου ὄψις παραπλησία τῷ κτενί,
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Athenaeus. The Deipnosophists. with an English Translation by. Charles Burton Gulick. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1927. 1.
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