Chromis

Chromis abyssus – a beautiful species of damselfish made it to the top 10 representing the first taxonomic act of 2008 and the first act registered in the newly launched taxonomic database Zoobank.

Top 10 New Species | Impact Lab 2009

Four are nationally protected: blue and yellow chromis Chromis limbaughi, Pacific seahorse Hippocampus ingens, king angelfish Holocanthus passer, and Cortez angelfish Pomacanthus zonipectus.

Islands and Protected Areas of the Gulf of California, Mexico 2008

From the sixth of Virgil's Eclugues or Bucolics in which Silenus, the close companion of Bacchus is discovered by Chromis and Mnasylus with Aegle, the fairest of the Naids joining in the fun of making him give them a song.

Archive 2008-02-01 Hermes 2008

Or rather he was a sober Silenus, and we were the boys Chromis and Mnasilus who listened to his story.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864 Various

Amastrus, son of Hippotas, and follows from far with her spear Tereus and Harpalycus and Demophoön and Chromis: and as many darts as the maiden sends whirling from her hand, so many Phrygians fall.

The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil

Chromis, and Ennomus the augur, led the Mysians, but his skill in augury availed not to save him from destruction, for he fell by the hand of the fleet descendant of Aeacus in the river, where he slew others also of the Trojans.

The Iliad of Homer 1898

And the Mysians were led of Chromis and Ennomos the augur, yet with all his auguries warded he not black fate from him, but was vanguished by the hand of fleet-footed Aiakides in the river, when he made havoc of the

The Iliad 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1882

Ah! if thou wilt but sing as on that day thou sangest in thy match with Chromis out of Libya, I will let thee milk, ay, three times, a goat that is the mother of twins, and even when she has suckled her kids her milk doth fill two pails.

Theocritus Bion and Moschus Rendered into English Prose 300 BC-260 BC Theocritus 1878

Smallbury, who volunteered a ballad as inclusive and interminable as that with which the worthy toper old Silenus amused on a similar occasion the swains Chromis and Mnasylus, and other jolly dogs of his day.

Far from the Madding Crowd 1874

Bob Coggan was sent home for his ill manners, and tranquility was restored by Jacob Smallbury, who volunteered a ballad as inclusive and interminable as that with which the worthy toper old Silenus amused on a similar occasion the swains Chromis and Mnasylus, and other jolly dogs of his day.

Far from the Madding Crowd 1874