Mediterranean tortoise with domed shell.

Periploca graeca: vine with silky follicles.

Rock partridge, a game bird.

, or "interpretation by means of Greek [models]", refers to the tendency of the ancient Greeks to identify foreign deities with their own gods.

The (PG, or Patrologiae Cursus Completus, Series Graeca) an edited collection of writings by the Church Fathers and various secular writers, in the Greek language.