OPPIAN 



aquis. Helopem dicit nostris incognitum undis, ex 

 quo apparet falli eos qui eundem acipenserem existi- 

 maverint. Helopi palmam saporis inter pisces multi 

 dedere), the genuineness of which has been wrongly 

 suspected. But for the most part we must depend 

 on general works, such as Aristot. H.A., Ael. N.A., 

 Pliny (especially ix. and xxxii.) and other works 

 mentioned in the previous section (Hunting). 



In Plato's Sophist 219 sq., Socrates, wishing to 

 define a sophist and considering that the sophist is 

 a yei'os ^aAcTrbv koI Svadi'ipevTov, proposes to practise 

 definition on an easier subject, and he selects the 

 Angler (do-7raXt€in-^s) as " known to everyone and 

 not a person to be taken very seriously." He pro- 

 ceeds as follows : 



Angling is an Art and of the two kinds of Art — 

 Creative and Acquisitive — it belongs to the latter. 

 Again the Acquisitive is of two kinds — that which 

 proceeds by voluntary Exchange and that which 

 proceeds by Force — and Angling belongs to the 

 latter. Force may be open, i.e. Fighting, or secret, 

 i.e. Hunting. Hunting again is of the Lifeless — this 

 sort of Hunting has "no special name except some 

 sorts of diving" (Plato no doubt means cnroyyod-)]pLKT^ 

 [sponge-cutting. Poll. vii. 139 or the like]) — or of the 

 Living, i.e. Animal Hunting. This again is divided 

 into Hunting of Land Animals and Hunting of Water 

 Animals (Animals which swim). Water animals 

 may be Winged, i.e. Birds, and the hunting of these 

 is called Fowling, or they may live in the water, and 

 the hunting of these is called Fishing. Of Fishing 

 there are two kinds, that which proceeds by En- 

 closures (epKT^) — i.e. Kvproi, Blktvo, l3p6)(^oi, iropKoi, 

 and the like — and that which proceeds by Striking 



