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The dialogue is no. 147 in the catalogue of Lamprias. According to this document Plutarch wrote another work (no. 135) on the same subject: Do Beasts Possess Reason? But no. 127, Περὶ ζώλων ἀλόγων ποιητικός, is probably the same as our Gryllus, the following dialogue in this edition.
Abbreviations used in citing Modern Authors
Brands = J. P. J. M. Brands, Grieksche Diernamen, Purmerend, 1935.
Cotte = J. Cotte, Poissons et animaux aquatiques au temps de Pline, Paris, 1945.
Keller = Otto Keller, Die antike Tierwelt, Leipzig, 1909-1913.
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Mair = A. W. Mair, Oppian, Colluthus, Tryphiodorus, L.C.L., 1928.
Saint-Denis = E. de Saint-Denis, Le Vocabulaire des animaux marius en latin classique, Paris, 1947.
Schmid = Georg Schmid, Die Fische in Ovids Halieuticon, Philologus, Supplementband xi (1907-1910), pp. 253-350.
Thompson, Aristotle = D’Arcy W. Thompson, The Works of Aristotle, vol. IV, Historia animalium, Oxford, 1910.
Thompson, Birds = D’Arcy W. Thompson, A Glossary of Greek Birds, rev. ed., Oxford, 1936.
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Thompson, Fishes = D’Arcy W. Thompson, A Glossary of Greek Fishes, Oxford, 1947.
