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other fish employ other breeds, the weaker as bait for 

 the stronger ; since verily all fishes are welcome food 

 to one another and gluttonous destruction. So true 

 it is that naught is deadlier than hunger and the 

 grievous belly," which bears harsh sway among men 

 and is a stem mistress to dwell with : who never 

 forgets her tribute and who misleads the wits of 

 many and casts them into ruin and binds them fast 

 to shame. The belly bears sway over \\ild beasts 

 and over reptiles and over the flocks of the air, but 

 it has its greatest power among fishes ; for them 

 evermore the belly proves their doom. 



Hear first the cunning mode of taking the Anthias * 

 which is practised by the inhabitants of our glorious 

 fatherland <= above the promontory of Sarpedon,*^ 

 those who dwell in the city of Hermes,* the town of 

 Corycus,^ famous for ships, and in sea-girt Eleusa.' 

 A skilful man observes those rocks near the land, 

 under which the Anthias dwell : cavemed rocks, 

 cleft ^\^th many a covert. Sailing up in his boat he 

 makes a loud noise by striking planks together ; and 

 the heart of the Anthias rejoices in the din, and one 

 haply rises presently from the sea, gazing at the boat 

 and the man. Then the fisher straightway lets down 

 into the waves the ready bait of Perch or Crowfish, 



I.H.S. xii. p. 940 (metrical dedication of statues of Hermes 

 and Pan from the Corycian cave). Hermes appears on 

 coins of Corycus, Adana, Mallos. 



f Seaport in Cilicia, N.-E. of Sarpedon, Strabo 670 

 KuipvKOi &Kpo., i'X6p ijj ev eiKOffi ffradiois earl rb ^(jjpvKLOv avrpov ; 

 Plin. V. 9-2 iuxtaque mare Corycos, eodera nomine oppidum 

 et portus et specus ; Strabo 671 mentions r'qv d'iropiav t^j 

 re pavTrriyriaifjiov vXiji /cat tQv Xiuevuv in this region, 



» Island off Cilicia : Strabo 671 eZ^' ij -EXatouaaa vrjaoi fiera 

 TTjc ILwpvKov. TpocKeiixfvri Tj r]irtip<j) ; 537 ttjk 'EXaiovaffOP vifaiov 

 evKafnrov. Cf. ibid. 335; Plin. v. 130. 



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