18 ANGLING LITERATURE OF 



was a writer on Fish and Pishing: there is a 

 well-known chapter in his work, entitled, " On an un- 

 usual mode of fishing practised in Macedonia," in which 

 modern critics conceive that he alludes to the mode of 

 angling with an artificial fly. This subject has been 

 recently handled (Erazer's Magazine for October 1853) in 

 a very superior manner; and we make no apology for 

 inserting the following remarks on the question at issue. 

 The writer says, " zElian speaks, as we have elsewhere 

 noticed, of certain speckled fish, IX^^Q TV" xp av Kard- 

 GTLKTOI (whose name he advises the curious to make out 

 from the Macedonians themselves), which are secured, he 

 says, by the device of an artificial fly called hippurus, 

 for the due dubbing of which, not to encumber our text 

 with too much Greek, the reader may consult the appended 

 foot-note. 11 That these speckled fish were some species 

 of trout is rendered extremely probable from the mode 

 adopted to take them. Menesitheus, in Athenseus, speaks 

 of certain fish called pyruntes, excellent for the table, easy 

 of digestion, and only found in clear, rapid, and cold 

 streams ; which were also probably some kind of trout. 

 It seems, too, all but certain that the thymalus of -ZElian 



11 Qlov T<$ aytdcTpif) 7repi(3a\\ovffiv tpiov 

 re rip tpio) uo Trrepd a\f.KrpvovoQ^ VTTO TOLQ Ka\\koiQ TTf^v/cora, 

 ical K?;p9 TTJV xpoav TrapeiKaffpsva. The line to which this was 

 attached measured four cubits, and the rod was the same length 

 as the line. 



