HALIEUTICA, V. 348-359 



Nay, O Sea, I greet thee — from the land,*' and — 

 from afar — mayst thou be kind to me ! 



Such are the labours by which -they slay those 

 Sea-monsters which exceed in monstrous bulk of 

 body, burdens ^ of the sea. But those which are 

 endowed with lesser limbs are caught by lesser sort 

 of hunting and the weapons are suited to the prey : 

 smaller the lines, smaller the jaw of the hook, 

 scantier the food that baits the barbs, and in place 

 of the skins of goats globes of dried gourds " fastened 

 to the line pull the body of the beast to the surface. 



When fishermen encounter the whelps of the 

 Lamna,<* many a time they merely undo the oar- 

 thong,* the strap which fastens the oar, and project 



par les deux bouts, se tire au dessous du niveau de la mer. 

 Un ou deux jours apres, si le cernier. presse par la faim et 

 fatigue de se tenir appuye contre les parois de son nid, se 

 relac-he un peu, 11 est aussitot tire par la Home qui tend a 

 flotter. N'etant pas assez fort pour entrainer de nouveau le 

 liege, il reste en dehors de son nid, et le pecheur, avise par 

 la ligne qui flotte, vient le ramasser " (Apost. I.e.). 



" H. V. 36 n. 



' This refers to the simplest form of rowlock, a pin or 

 thole (o-/ca\yu6s) in the gunwale to which tlie oar was fastened 

 by a leathern thong {rpoirds, rpoiru'TTip) : Poll. i. 87 odev ^iv 

 ai KiHrrat iKOiSevrai, crKoKfios' y 6e (Kdfdfvrai, Tpoiriirr-qp' Kai 

 TpoTwffacrdai j'afi'. Cf. Horn. Od. iv. 782 = viii. 53 riprivavTO 

 5' ipiTnik Tpovols €9 Bepfuirivoiffi ; Aesch. Pers. 313 f. vav^dTrjs 

 r' aPTjp j TpoirovTo kwittiv aKoXubi' dfji<f>' (i-rjptTjjiov. See further 

 Aristoph. Ach. 549, 553; Eur. Hel. 1598; 7.7'. 1347; 

 Thuc. ii. 93 ; Horn. 77y. \i. 4^ ; Lucian, Catapl. 1 ; Poll, 

 i. 85 ff., X. 134 ; E. J7. *. iriKuvos, s. (('(XKapdfMi, s. intaX/ioj, 

 *. Tpa<py)^, 8. TpoTurrTJpei ; Hesych. s, rpoToi, s. TpoTriJjffaffOai ; 

 Suid. *. Tpoxurrijpfs. For the dynamics of the arrangement 

 cf. [A.] Mechan. 850 b 10 fF. In Lat. the thong is struppus, 

 Liv. Andr. ap. Isidor. Oriq. xix. 4. 9. The pin is scalmus, 

 Cic. Bru{. 197; De or. i. 174; JJe offic. iii. 59; Veil. Pat, 

 ii. 43. 1. In Shetland, where the arrangement is still in use, 

 the pin is called kahe, the thong humlahand. 



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