sea-crab

It is related of an old chief in Savaii, that one night at the evening meal he ordered a sea-crab to be reserved for his breakfast.

Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before George Turner

I am no Heracles; and even Heracles could not fight against the Hydra, who was a she-Sophist, and had the wit to shoot up many new heads when one of them was cut off; especially when he saw a second monster of a sea-crab, who was also a Sophist, and appeared to have newly arrived from a sea-voyage, bearing down upon him from the left, opening his mouth and biting.

The EUTHYDEMUS Plato 1905

It is engraved upon the shell of a sea-crab; and it might happen, notwithstanding what Seneca says, that this famous epicure, after having sought for larger shell-fish than the coast of Gallia could supply him with, and then going in vain to Africa to make a farther inquiry, might hear some rumour concerning this coast, steer his course thither, and there die of a surfeit.

Ideal Commonwealths Tommaso Campanella 1603

“You see not that in me,” said the Varangian; “the rigour of military discipline, the camp — the centurion — the armour — frame a man’s sentiments and limbs to them, as the sea-crab is framed to its shell.

Count Robert of Paris 2008

a second monster of a sea-crab, who was also a Sophist, and appeared to have newly arrived from a sea-voyage, bearing down upon him from the left, opening his mouth and biting.

Euthydemus 427? BC-347? BC Plato 1855

"You see not that in me," said the Varangian; "the rigour of military discipline, the camp -- the centurion -- the armour -- frame a man's sentiments and limbs to them, as the sea-crab is framed to its shell.

Waverley Novels — Volume 12 Walter Scott 1801