OPPIAN 



o(T(Toi ^' ' E/DyMfiao TToXiv, vavaiKXvTov a(nv 

 KwpuKtov, valovfTL KaX afx^ipvTrjv EAeovcav. 



These passages certainly suggest that the author of 

 the Halieutica came from Corycus, but they by no 

 means prove it. The poet is describing a method of 

 fishings and Anazarbos as an inland town (Ptolem. 

 V. 8. 7 among inland [/xeo-oyeioi] towns in Cilicia is 

 Katcrapeta tt/jo? ' Ava^dpfSto) would not be in point. 

 Nor is 'E/3/i€i'a, (TV Se /iot irarpwie conclusive, as 

 Hermes appears on coins of other Cilician towns, 

 e.g. Adana and Mallos. 



2. The Halieutica is dedicated to a Roman 

 Emperor, who is addressed as Antoninus'* (^H. i. 3, 

 etc.) without further specification. 



3. That Emperor's son, whose name is not 

 indicated, is several times in the poem coupled with 

 his father : H. i. 66, the fish in a royal preserve are 

 a ready spoil croi re, [laKap, Kal TratSt [xeyavxei; i. 77 

 ff. (Ti) 8' iOvveui's eKacTTa, | Trorva Qed, Kal Trarpl kul viei 

 Tra/xjSaa-LXrjo? [ dv/xripi] raSe 8wpa rerjs Tr6p<Tvvov aoi8rj<s ; 

 ii. 41 crot re, jxaKap o-Kr/Trroi'xe, xal dyXaoTratSi yivWkrj ; 

 ii. 682 Justice prevails among men e^ ov /xoi Kpai- 

 vov(ri peyav Bpovov ipfSe/SawTd \ a/x.<^w OtmrearLos re 

 TTaTrjp Kal (^atSi/xos opTrx]^ ; iv. 4 ff. aAAa <rv poi, 

 KapricTTe ttoAicto-oi'xwi' /3ao- iXvywi', | avros t, AvTWvlve, 

 Kal i»i€OS rjydOeov Krjp, | Trp6(f)pove^ elaaioiTe ktX.. 



Suidas, as we have seen above, puts the Cilician 

 Oppian IttI MapKOv ' KvTiovivov /JatriAews, which most 

 naturally means Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Emperor 

 I6I-I8O, in which case the son will be L. Aurelius 



« The ambiguity is sufficiently great since the name 

 Antoninus was borne by Antoninus Pius 138-161, M. 

 Aurelius Antoninus 161-180, Coramodus 180-192, Caracalla 

 211-217, Opelhus 217-218, Elagabalus 218-222, etc. 



