a 



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marine) must verily have demanded rhv ^fxtoepyov, 

 craftsman of the people, welcome over all the wide earth." 1 



For these reasons the kudos of the first mention of an 

 artificial fly belongs, in my opinion, to Martial rather than to 



^lian. 



1 Od., XVII. 383 and 386. | 



