Class IV. 



STING RAY. 



95 



Tfuyccv. Ariil. Hifi. an. lib. 

 VIII. c. 13. IX. 37. Op- 

 pian. Halieut. I. 1 04. II. 

 462. 



PafHnaca Plinii lib. IX. c. 42. 



38. 

 La Paftenade de mer, Tour- 



terelle, ou Tareronde. Be- 



lon 83. 

 Paftinaca. Rondel. 33 J. Gef- 



ner pifc. 679. 



Wil. 



Steckroche. Grone 



Scbonevelde, 58. 

 Paftinaca marina lasvis 



.pifc. 6 7 . 

 Fire Flaire. Ration, pifc. 24. 

 Raia Paftinaca. Lin.fyfi. 396. 

 Raia corpore glabro, aculeo 



longo anterius ferrato, cauda 



apterygia . Arted. fy?ion. 



1 00. Gronov. Zsopb. No, 



158. 



Tepel. 38. Sting. 



THE weapon with which nature has armed this 

 fifh, hath fupplied the antients with many- 

 tremendous fables relating to it. Pliny, s£lian% 

 and Oppian, have given it a venom that .affects even 

 the inanimate creation : trees that are Crude by it 

 inftantly lofe their verdure and perim, and rocks 

 themfeives are incapable of refitting the potent poi- 

 fon. 



The enchantrefs Circe, armed her fon with a 

 fpear headed with the fpine of the Trygon, as the 

 mod irrefiftible weapon me could furnim him with, 

 and with which he afterwards committed parri- 

 cide, unintentionally, on his father Ulyjfes. 



That fpears and darts might, in very early 

 times, have been headed with this bone inflead of 

 iron, we have no kind of doubt: that of another 

 fpecies of this fifli being dill ufed to point the ar~ 



* Hi If. an. lib, II. c. 



36, 



rows 



