HALIEUTICA, III. 385-405 



for others, they find destruction for themselves. 

 As when some hunter on the hills prepares a trap 

 in the woods for a wild beast and with hard heart 

 ties up a dog," fastening him by a cord about his 

 private parts ; the loud howUng of the dog in pain 

 travels afar and the wood resounds about him ; the 

 Leopard hears and is glad and hastes to track the 

 crj' ; swiftly she arrives and leaps upon the dog ; 

 then a hidden de\ice snatches the dog aloft, while 

 the Leopard rolls headlong in the pit, and has no 

 more thought of feasting but of flight ; but for it 

 there is no escape prepared : even such is the fate 

 of the hapless Admon and in place of food they rush 

 upon their fate and the unescapable net of Hades. 



In like fashion for the Shad ^ also and the Pilchard * 

 one devises capture in the autiunn and so one takes 

 the Larinus "^ and the tribes of the Trachurus.'* The 

 fisherman weaves compactly a weel of broom and 

 therein puts a cake of parched vetches, " moistened 

 with fragrant wine, and mixes therewith the tear ^ 

 of the Assyrian daughter of Theias ^ : who, they 

 say, did a deed of ill contrivance for love of her 

 father and came into his bed, through the anger of 



such exudation : Herod, ii. 96 to Be 5aKpvoi> KOfifu iffriv. Cf. 

 A. 553 b -28 ; 623 b 29 ; Meteor. 388 b 19 to fjXtKTpoy koI 

 5<Ta Xe7€Tat ojs oixpva . . . ciov afuipva, XtiSavwros, ko/jl/u ; 

 Theophrast. H. P. i\. I. 2 6 Xi^avos icai ^ fffjLvpva, Sdxpva koI 



TaVTO. 



' Apollodor. iiL 14. 4 Qeiam-os ^affiKiun' A.a<rvpiwv, 8s ^c^e 

 diryaTcpa 'Z^.vpvap. avn) Kara ixrji'iv 'A<ppodiT7]i . . . f^xei rov 

 TOTpoj fpuTa Kai dyvoovrTi r<p xarpt . . . ffivfivdffffrj. d Si on 

 ■^(xOeTO, (rTaxraiievos ft'^oy iSiuKev avrriv' i} Sf vepiKaraXau^avofUrri 

 dedii fO^aro atpaorji ytviadau deal 5i KaToiKTtipavTtv aiViji' etj 

 Sefdpov ueriiWa^ar, 8 KaXovcri afju'pvay. In some versions the 

 father is called Cinyras, the daughter Myrrha : Ov. 2tl. x. 

 298 ff. She became mother of Adonis : Lycophr. 8-29 Mi'-ppas 

 epi'Uvbv AffTv, TTJs fioTfoaroKovi \ ibSiyas iBeXvat StydpwSrjs (cXdSo?. 



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