HALIEUTICA, III. 624r-639 



might capture them within the Iberian brine " ; 

 next by the mouth of the Rhone the Celts and the 

 ancient inhabitants of Phocaea ^ hunt them ; and 

 thirdly those who are dwellers in the Trinacrian 

 isle ' and by the waves of the Tyrrhenian sea. 

 Thence in the unmeasured deeps they scatter <* this 

 way or that and travel over all the sea. Abundant 

 and wondrous is the spoil for fishermen when the 

 host of Tunnies set forth in spring. First of all the 

 fishers mark a place in the sea which is neither too 

 straitened under beetling banks nor too open to the 

 winds, but has due measure of open sky and shady 

 coverts. There first a skilful Tunny-watcher ' 

 ascends a steep high hill/ who remarks the various 

 shoals, their kind and size,^ and informs '^ his comrades. 



* Analogous to the '* Hooer " in the Cornish Pilchard 

 fishing : A. 537 a 19 iroWaKu 5e Kal oi Ovvvcxtkoitoi irept^dXXovTai 

 Kadei'SovTai ; Theocr. iii. 25 f. es Kv/xara TrjvQ dXef'^at | wirep 

 Tws ^licvuis (TKoirid^eTai "OXirts 6 ypiirevi. Hence metaphorically 

 Aristoph. Eq. 31-2 f. oam [i.e. Cleon] rj/xiov rdj 'Adrjvai eKKCKw- 

 ipwKas fiouiv, I KCLiro tQiv ireTpdv Avwdev roi'S (popovs OvvfoaKOirCiv. 

 Cf. Suid. s.v. Alciphr. i. 30 6 ffKowLojpos in same sense. 



' The outlook, dwvoffKoireloy, Strabo 223; 225; 834, etc., 

 was sometimes a high mast (Varr. ap. Non. i. p. 49; cf. 

 Philostr. Imag. i. 13 (TKOintjjpeiTaL "yap rts a.<f> vipijkov ^xiKov), 

 sometimes a more elaborate platform (Ael. xv. 5). 



» According to Plut. ^Jar. 980 a he was helped in his 

 computation by the cubical formation of the shoal : 6 70P1' 

 dvpvoffKovos, &»" CLKpi^ujs Xd/Sj; Toi' dpLdfidf TTJi etCKpavfiai, evOi/s 

 dro<f>aiv€Tai irixTov Kai dirav to irXijffos eaTiv, ei5il'j on /cat to 

 ^ddos airrQv iv iffifi TeTayfxevov ffToix^^f irp6j re to irXdroj ecrri 



Kai TO firJKOS. 



* Philostr. Imaff. I.e. k^v e'/u^dXXovras roi>j ix^^^ (Stj, ^o^j re 

 us fifyiffTrji [hence the point of ^owv in Aristoph. Eq. 312 

 quoted on 638 above] oei airr^) Tp6s rous iv tols dKart'otj Kal t6v 

 dpidfiov \fyfi Kai rdj fivpiddas ain-Qiv ; Ael. xv. 5 6 ckottos iSCjv 

 . . . Xeyei fi)v Toh Orjoarah birodev dcpiKvovi/Tai' . . . epft ye 

 fii}y ToXXd/cts Acai tov trdvTa dpid/xoy. 



