‘περὶ δὲ Τροιζῆνα τὸ παλαιόν᾽, φησὶν ὁ αὐτὸςΚλέαρχος, ‘οὔτε τὸν ἱερὸν καλούμενον πουλύπουν οὔτε τὸν κωπηλάτην [πουλύπουν] νόμιμον ἦν θηρεύειν, ἀλλ᾽ ἀπεῖπον τούτων τε καὶ τῆς θαλαττίας χελώνης μὴ ἅπτεσθαι. ὁ δὲ πουλύπους ἐστὶ συντηκτικὸς καὶ λίαν ἀνόητος: πρὸς γὰρ τὴν χεῖρα τῶν διωκόντων βαδίζει καὶ διωκόμενος ἔστιν ὅτε οὐχ ὑποχωρεῖ. συντήκονται δ᾽ αὐτῶν αἱ θήλειαι μετὰ τὸν τόκον καὶ παρίενται: διὸ καὶ ῥᾳδίως ἁλίσκονται. ἑωράθησαν δέ ποτε καὶ ἐπὶ τὸ ξηρὸν ἐξιόντες, μάλιστα δὲ πρὸς τὰ τραχέα τῶν χωρίων: φεύγουσι γὰρ τὰ λεῖα. καὶ χαίρουσι δὲ τῶν φυτῶν [καὶ] ταῖς ἐλαίαις καὶ πολλάκις εὑρίσκονται ταῖς πλεκτάναις περιειληφότες τὸ στέλεχοσ᾽. ῾ἐφωράθησαν δὲ καὶ συκέαις προσπεφυκυίαις τῇ θαλάσσῃ προσπλεκόμενοι καὶ τῶν σύκων ἐσθίοντες, ὥς φησι Κλέαρχος ἐν τῷ περὶ τῶν ἐν τῷ ὑγρῷ.' ‘ἐστὶ δὲ δεῖγμα τοῦ ἥδεσθαι αὐτοὺς τῇ ἐλαίᾳ καὶ τοῦτο: ἐάν τις κλάδον τοῦ φυτοῦ τούτου καθῇ εἰς τὴν θάλασσαν καθ᾽ ἥν εἰσι πουλύποδες καὶ μικρὸν ἐπίσχῃ, ἀπονητὶ ἀνέλκει τῷ κλάδῳ περιπλεκομένους ὅσους ἐθέλει.' ἔχουσι δὲ τὰ μὲν ἄλλα μέρη ἰσχυρότατα, τὸν δὲ τράχηλον ἀσθενῆ.
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Athenaeus. Deipnosophistae. Kaibel. In Aedibus B.G. Teubneri. Lipsiae. 1887.
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