Descrizione:
Its time on the shore, and the naturalist thought it was so called because Adonis, the son of Cinyras, was in love with two goddesses, one of the land, the other of the sea.2 In another place zelian mentions a large fish found in the Red Sea which the Arabians called Perseus.3 Now Cynurus was a son of the Greek Perseus, so that all these particulars relate to the overthrow of the Pharaoh of the Exodus in the Red Sea.4 The spectacle of the Egyptians whom Israel saw dead upon the sea shore long dwelt in the memory of the coast tribes, and, when they saw the singular fishes basking on the rocks or sandy beach from which the waters had receded, it was but natural to name them after the lord of the submerged host. |
