Class IV. RED SURMULLET, 



271 



Head compreffed, flecD, and covered with fcales. XXX. 



_ . \. n r SURMUI^ 



1 wo branchioltegous rays. LET. 



Body covered with large fcales, eafily dropping off. 



TfrAv > Arijl. Hift. an. Lib. 



11. Oppian Halieut. I. 590. 

 Tf/y^v; Zapguv. Athenausy 



Lib. VII. 325. 

 Mulius. Ovid Halieut. 123. 



Plinii Lib. IX. c. 17. 

 Triglia. Salvian. 235. 

 Le Rouget barbe, Surmurlet. 



Belon, 170. 

 Mulius barbatus. Rondel 290. 



Gefner pifc. 565. 



Petermanneken , Goldeken. 



Schone-velde, 47 . 

 Mulius Bellonii. Wil. Icth. 



285. Raii fyn. pifc. 90. 

 TrigJa capite glabro, cirris 



geminis in maxillainferiore. 



Arted.fynon. 71. 

 Mulius cirris geminis, corpore 



rubro. Lin.fyft. 495. Gro- 



7iov. Zoopb. No. 286. 



*35 



Red. 



THIS fifh was highly efteemed by the Romans, 

 and bore an exceeding high price. The 

 capricious epicures of Horace's* days, valued it in 

 proportion to its fize ; not that the larger were 

 more delicious, but that they were more difficult 

 to be got. The price that was given for one in the 

 time of Juvenal, and Pliny ^ is a ftriking evidence 

 of the luxury and extravagance of the age : 



Mullum/IvY mil/ibus emit 

 JE quant em fane paribus fejiertia libris f. 



* Sat. Lib. II. / II. 33. 



f Juvenal Sat. IV. 48 1, $s. o.d. 



The 



