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call it ; out of many others, I translate this allusion from 

 Quintus Smijmceus, vii., 568-574 ; 



As the shrewd fisher, bent on finny spoil, 



Invokes Hephaestus to assist his toil. 



The blazing firea, fanned by the breezes, glow 



Aronnd the boat, and light the waves below ; 



The crowding fishes hasten in surprise 



To view the meteor close with wond'ring eyes ; 



— Then darts the trident, and the briny flood 



Is crimsoned with th' incautious victims' blood, 



Thev armed their bottom lines (as we have learned from 

 Homer with horn, but), according to Oppian, with ivij^e. 

 Thev used i^amrs of hooks, or manv on one line, some- 

 times trollini? with them from a boat: tliev knew how to 

 sj)in their bait : 



'* If dead, his j.iws received the leaden weight. 

 New life deriving from the pressing lead, 

 Th' unconscious mimic rolls and nods his head." 



{Jones's Oppian, iii., 394-6.) 



with many other devices which we cannot stay to note. 



AusoNius, a Latin poet (born at Bordeaux, and by Ya- 

 lentinian made tutor to his son Gratian, A.D. 367), in his 

 Tenth IdijI, celebrates tlie Moselle, describing, among 

 other tilings, its fish and fishing. He speaks of the Salai-, 

 wliich we at once recognise as the trout : 



Purpurisqiie Salare stel/afus tergoia guftis ; — (SS.) 

 (Whose back and sides are stain'd with purple spots;) 



becomes enthusiastic about the Salmo, " puniceo rutilantem 

 viscere" (liis red flesh flashing through the water) and 

 duhice facturus fercula cceiicb (about to make a dainty 

 dish for an epicurean feast) ; 



Quis te JVatura; pinrit color 7 Sfc. 



With what dye wert thou painted ? On thy back. 

 The rainbow sjiinina; spotted n'er with black: 



