INTRODUCTION 



(7rA7;y7j), i.e. bv Hooks (ayKicrrpa) and Tridents (Tpio- 

 SovTts). This again is divided into (l) Night-fishing, 

 done by the light of a fire and called by fishermen 

 ■jrvpevTiKT] ; (2) Day-fishing, which may be called as 

 a whole ayKurrpevriKyj, ws kyoi-nov kv aKpois ayKurrpa 

 Kal T«3v TpioSovTOiv, but is further divided into (l) 

 Tpio8oi-Tia or Spearing, in which the blow is down- 

 ward and the fish is struck in any part of the body ; 

 (2) da~7rakLevriKq or Angling, where the fish is hooked 

 about the head or mouth and drawn upwards from 

 below by rods or reeds (^pdjSdois xal KaX.dp.oLs dva- 

 cnruipevov) ; cf. Plato, Larrs, 823. 



Oppian, H. iii. 72 ff., distinguishes four methods of 

 Fishing — by Hook and Line, Nets, Weels, Trident. 



With regard to the Hook and Line he distinguishes 

 Rod-fishing from fishing without a Rod, i.e. with hand- 

 lines, and in the case of the latter method he dis- 

 tinguishes two sorts of line — the KdOeros-or leaded line 

 (see H. iii. 77 n.) and the TroXvdyKurrpov, or hne with 

 many hooks, for which cf. A. 621 a 15 dXia-Kovrai. (sc. 

 at d\(ir7r€K€s. Fox Sharks) —epl hiois tottovs ttoAv- 

 ayKia-rpois ; 532 b 25 a certain monstrous sea creature 

 is said XafS&rOai —ore rov —oXvayKLcrTpov riZ aKpia av- 

 Tov, i e. to have seized a night-line with its extremity. 

 Apost. p. 47 is disp)Osed to identify the -oXvdyKiarpov 

 with a species of hnes used in Greece to-day especially 

 for catching 'Epvdpivia (Sea-breams) but also for 

 other fishes. These lines are called —apaydSia^ 

 presumably from being mainly used near the land 

 (irapa yrjv, TrapaydBi). It is a species of line, he says, 

 well known in the N. of France and on all the coasts 

 of England, where it is used for catching Gangers 

 and Rays. It consists of a verv long and strong 

 line, wbich^ to protect it from the action of the salt 



