Class IV. M U L L E T. 331 



Alktanhi and of the roes of the females, which 

 are called Botar^ is made Botargo. The materials 

 are taken out entire, covered with fait for four or 

 five hours, then prerTed a little between two boards 

 or flones, warned, and at laft dried in the fun for 

 thirteen or fourteen days*. 



This filh was fometimes made the inftrument 

 of a horrible punifhment for unfortunate gallants. 

 It was in ufe both at Athens f and at Rome-, but we 

 doubt much whether it was a legal one: for we ra- 

 ther fufpect it was inflicted inflantaneoufly by the 

 injured and enraged hufband, at a feafon when 



Furor arma miniftrat. 



Juvenal feems to fpeak of it in that light as well 

 as Horace : the former, relating the revenge taken 

 by the exafperated fpoufe, defcribes it as very va- 

 rious j 



Necat hie f err o, fecat ilk cruentis 

 Verb eri bus, quo/dam machos et Mugilis intrat J. 



The paflage in Horace feems not to have been 

 attended to by the critics ; but when he mentions 



* Mr. Willugbhfs notes during his travels. Vide Harris's 

 CoL Voy. II. 721. 



f Legibus Athenienfium adulteri gj> %qy& deprehenfi ptena fuit 

 eaqtavo^acrig. Raphani loco utebantnr nonntinquam tnugile pifce, 

 interdum fcorpicne. Caufauboni animadvert, in Athenaeum, 

 lib. I. 



% Satyr. X. 316 



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