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fisher puts to sea let him set his sail with the ^v•ind — 

 Northward when the wet South Wind blows ; South- 

 ward when the North Wind drives the sea ; when 

 the East Wind rises, towards the paths of the West 

 Wind ; towards the East let the West Wind bear his 

 vessel ; for so will infinite shoals meet him and his 

 fishing will be blest with luck. 



Fourfold " modes of hunting their prey in the sea 

 have fishermen de\ised. Some delight in Hooks * ; 

 and of these some fish •with a well-t\^'isted line " of 

 horse-hair** fastened to long reeds,* others simply 

 cast a flaxen cord ^ attached to their hands, another 

 rejoices in leaded lines" or in lines vrith many hooks.* 

 Others prefer to array Nets ' ; and of these there are 

 those called casting-nets, and those called draw- 

 nets — drag-nets and round bag-nets and seines. 

 Others they call cover-nets, and, with the seines, 



Tis 0cL'j I TTiTpr) eirt irpo^Xrjri KaQ-qfifvo^ lephv IxOi'v | iK ttovtoio 

 dvpa^e \ivi(i Kai ijvoiri xaXftp. The reference is to what is now 

 called "hand-lines." 



' KdOsTos is properly a plummet, Lat. perpend iculum. 

 Here of a fishing-line weighted at the end. A. P. vii. 637 

 Ili'ppos 6 fiovvep(Tr]s 0X177; vet Xcttci /xartvwv | <f>vKia Kai rpixifrji 

 fxaividas (KKaOfrrji ; cf. Apost. p. 48 " Pour la peche des serrans 

 (xavow) et celle des pagels on emploie une ligne appelee 

 Xo-viKo, KaOfTTi. . . Cet engin porte a son extremite libre un 

 morceau conique de plorab (fwXv^idpa) a la partie superieure 

 duquel sent attaches sur des avancees 4 ou 8 hame^ons. II 

 est totaleraent en crins de cheval tordus ; il est employe 

 surtout par les amateurs de peche, dans leurs moments de 

 loisir. On se rende sur de petites erabarcations dans les 

 endroits rocheux, on raouille le bateau et Ton commence la 

 peche en jetant la ligne, a laquelle le poids du plomb fait 

 prendre, dans I'eau, une direction perjjendiculaire ; une fois 

 qu'elle a touche le fond, on la souleve un peu et on la tient 

 ainsi disposee pour la peche." * Introd. p. xxxix. 



* For the varieties of net mentioned here see Introd. 

 p. xl. 



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