Class IV. SEA LAMPREY. 105 



Ovid, Pliny, and others, for which we want an 

 Eiiglish name. This fish, the Lupus (our 

 Basse) and the Myxo* (a species of mullet) 

 formed that pride of Roman banquets, the 

 Tripatinum,^ so called according to Arbuthnot, 

 from their being served up in a machine with 

 three bottoms. 



The words Lampetra and Petromyzon, are 

 but of modern date, invented from the nature 

 of the fish; the first a lambendo petras, the 

 other from nefps, and Mu<raw, because they are 

 supposed to lick, or suck the rocks. 



* Perhaps the species called by Rondeletius, Muge, and 

 Maxon. de Pise. P. 2Q5. 



f Atque ut luxu quoque aliqua contingat auctoritas figlinis, 

 Tripatinum, inquit Fenestella, appellabatur summa caenarum 

 lamina : una erat Murcenarum, altera Luporum, tertia Myxonis 

 piscis. Plinii Hist. Nat. lib. xxxv. c. 12. 



