518 THE AQUARIAN NATURALIST. 



the like happened to the Roiall ship of the Emperor 

 Caius Caligula, at what time as he rowed backe and 

 made saile from Astina to Antium ; when and 

 where this little fish detained his ship. And yet it 

 was not long ere the cause of this wonderfull staie of 

 his ship was known; for so soon as ever the vessel 

 (and a galliace it was, furnished with five banks of 

 ores on a side) was perceived alone in the fleet to 

 stand still, presentlie a number of tall fellows leapt 

 out of their ships into the sea to search what the 

 reason might be that it stirred not, and found one of 

 these fishes sticking to the very helme ; which, being 

 reported to Caligula, he fumed and fared like a very 

 emperour, taking great indignation that so small a 

 thing as it should hold him back perforce, and check 

 the strength of all his mariners, notwithstanding there 

 were no fewer than four hundred lustie men in his 

 galley, that laboured at the ore all that ever they 

 could to the contrarie. But this prince (as it is for 

 certaine knowne) was most astonied at this, namely 

 that the fish, sticking only to the ship, should hold 

 him fast, and the same being brought into the ship 

 should not work the like effect." 



Nay, even this is not the extent of delinquency 

 attributed to the poor Remora, although it seems to 

 have some useful qualities too : 



" It enters into the composition of poisons which 

 extinguish all feelings of love : it impedes justice, and 

 arrests the mandates of the tmbimalsjudiciorum mora ; 

 but, in virtue of the same power, it can compensate 

 for the evils thus produced. It preserves pregnant 

 women from accident, and, if salted, its very ap- 



