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tation of the IX0Y2 is frequently discernible, and always 

 interpreted ,as an emblem of the Saviour. 



" Piscator, fuge, ne nocens recedas. 

 Sacris piscibus hse natantur undse, 

 Qui norunt dominum, manumque lambunt 



Illam 



Quid quod nomen habent, et ad magistri 

 Vocem quisque sui venit citatus." 



" Rash angler, here thy guilty sport forbear, 

 These finny natives are a monarch's care ; 

 The gentle kind obey his known command, 

 And feed familiar from his sporting hand ; 

 Each has his name, which, severally, they hear, 

 And to their owner's summons straight appear." 



Ausonius flourished in the fourth century of the 

 Christian era. In his poem " Mostella," Tench, Salmon, 

 and other kinds of fish are described. He was the first 

 Latin poet who mentions the salmon under its present 

 title: 



" Nee te puniceo rutilantem viscere saimo 

 Transierim." 



And elsewhere he distinguishes it by different names 

 according to its age : 



" Teque inter geminas species, neutrurnque et utrumque, 

 Qui necdum salmo nee jam salar ambiguusque 

 Amborum, medio Fario intercepto sub sovo." 



