HALIEUTICA, or FISHING 



V 



Next hear and mark, O lord of earth, that there is 

 nothing impossible for men to do, either on mother 

 earth or in the vasty gulf of the sea, but of a truth 

 someone created men to be a race like unto the 

 blessed gods, albeit he gave them inferior strength : ° 

 whether it was the son of lapetus, Prometheus * of 

 many devices, who made man in the likeness of the 

 blessed ones, mingling earth with water, and anointed 

 his heart >\-ith the anointing of the gods ; or whether 

 we are bom of the blood divine that flowed from the 

 Titans ; "^ for there is nothing more excellent than 

 men, apart from the gods : only to the immortals 

 shall we give place. How many monster wild beasts 

 of dauntless might doth man quench upon the 

 mountains, how many tribes of birds that wheel in 

 cloud and air doth he take captive, <* though he be 

 of lowly stature ! His valour prevents not the Lion 

 from defeat, nor doth the windswift sweep of his 



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