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λέαινα. Aristotle without naming H. (Hist. An. vi. 31. 579 a 2) rightly styles this story as to the lioness ληρώδης; it was invented, he says, to account for the scarcity of lions. The lioness breeds once a year, and has usually three cubs. H. fails to explain how under his system the race of lions survives at all.

ἐσικνέεται καταγράφων, translate ‘he penetrates scratching it down’.

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