WAS THE ANGLER'S ?— TIBULLUS 151 



To conclude, whether harimdo here be a weapon for capture 

 of birds or of fish, it is now estabhshed beyond any doubt or 

 contradiction that there was used in and probably long before 

 Martial's time ^ a Reed Rod, capable of extension, either by 

 protruding a smaller cane through a larger one, or else, perhaps, 

 by an action somewhat similar to a chimney-sweep's, with 

 jointed rods fastened together in the hand, when prolonging 

 his brush. 



If such a Reed Rod was found of service to the fowler for 

 reaching a bird on a high branch, is it not extremely probable, 

 is it not almost certain, that in spite of no express mention of 

 such use the fisherman also employed a similar jointed rod for 

 the purpose— common alike to his primitive predecessor and 

 his more advanced successor— of getting the bait over any 

 obstacles which lay between him and the water, and for in- 

 creasing both the reach of his arm and the length of his throw ? 2 



Whether the Rod of the piscator was similar to that of the 

 micupator or not, we do find these two pursuits, with but one 

 verb for both, coupled in two of Tibullus's beautiful lines on 

 Hope (H. 6, 23). His Hope is very reminiscent of St. Paul's 

 Charity or Love, which " beareth all things, believeth all things, 

 hopeth all things, endureth all things. Love never faileth." 



" HaeG laqueo volucres, hsec captat harundine pisces 

 Cum tenues hamos abdidit ante cibus." 



" 'Tis Hope, that taketh birds with the Snare, fish with the Rod 

 with fine Hooks well hidden in the bait." 



Panormus, those for fishing (hanindo piscatoria) from Abaris in Lower Egypt. 

 Pliny, XVI. 66. For a legal decision as to the selling, etc., of reeds, see Digesia 

 Justiniani, VII. i, 9, 5. 



1 Possibly in the time of Aristophanes, 



Tras Tis i<p^ i>ixiu opvtdeuT-^S 



i'lTTTjcri $p6xovs, KayiSui, pafiSuvs, k.t.X, 



Aves, 526 f. 

 In the seventh century B.C. the Chinese mention the Ch'ih Kan or the " glu 

 tinous line for catching birds." Cf. Apuleius, Met., XL 8. 



- The epitaph in Corpus Inscnpt. Lat., ii. 2335, is of interest : 

 d. [M.] Quintus Marius Optatus 

 heu iuvenis tiimulo qualis iacet a[bditus isto,] 

 qui pisces iaculo capiebat missile dextra, 

 aucupium calamo praeter studiosus agebat . . . 

 Cf. Carm. Lat. Epig., no. 412. 



