HALIEUTICA, III. 177-193 



the small fishes are caught with the feeble Prawn : 

 they swallow tentacled Poulpe or Crab or tiny 

 Hermit-crabs " or bait of salted flesh ^ or rock- 

 haunting Worms or anything of the fishy kind '^ that 

 may be at hand. The small fish thou shouldst use as 

 bait for the larger ; for rejoicing in the banquet 

 they speed their own destruction ; gluttonous verily 

 always is the race of the swimming tribes that roam 

 the water. The Crow-fish'' attracts the Tunny, the 

 fat Prawn attracts the Basse/ the Channus -^ is a bait 

 beloved of the Braize,' as the Bogue* is to the 

 Dentex' and the Rainbow-wTasse ^ to the Hippurus ' ; 

 the Red Mullet "» slays the Merou," the Perch ° 

 catches the Cirrhis.P the Gilt-head « is landed by the 

 Maenis *■ ; while the baleful Muraena * haste after 

 the flesh of the Poulpe.' As for those fishes which 

 are of enormous size, the Beauty-fish " dehghts in 

 the Tunny, the Orcynus ^ in the Oniscus ^ ; while for 

 the Anthias ^ thou shouldst array the Basse,!' the 

 Hippurus ^ for the Swordfish,2° and for the Glaucus ^^ 

 thou shouldst impale the Grey Mullet. ^'^ To entrap 



' H. 404- n. •» C. ii. 39-2 n. 



" H. i. 14-2 n. • H. i. 124 n. 



" H. i. 129. » H. i. 169 n. 



•■ Three species of the genus Maena occur in the 

 Mediterranean : M. rulfjarh, M. osbeckil, M. ju^culum. 

 fffxapii (i(Tfiapis), by which the schol. glosses naivU here and 

 H. i. 108, is an allied genus (M.G. ffftapis, fjt-aph) of the same 

 family Maenidne (Apost. p. 18). Cf. Or. Hal. 120 Fecun- 

 dumqiie genus raaenae. 



» H. i. 142 n. * H. i. 306 n. 



» Introd. p. Ivii. » H. iii. 132 n. 



" H. i. 593 n. ' Introd. p. liii. 



» H. ii. 130 n. ' H. iv. 404 n. 



*" H. ii, 462 n. " Introd. p. Lxi. 



»<= H. ii. 642 n. 



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