Class IV. RIVER TROUT SALMON. 399 



Salar. Ausonius Mosel. 88. inferiore longiore. Anted. 5 - " IVER 



Trout. 

 Salar et varius, Trotta. Sal- Synon. 23. 



man. Q6. Salmo Fario. Lin. Syst. 50Q. 



La Truitte. Beloti, 274. Gm. Lin. 1367. 



Trutta fluviatilis. Rondel, flu- Laxoring, Forell, Stenbit. 



viat. 169. Gesnerpisc. 1002. Faun. Suec. No. 348. 



Foren, Forellen. Schonevclde, La Truite. Block ichth. i. 121. 



77- tab. 22. 



A Trout. Wil. Ichth. 1QQ. Rati Le Salmone truite. De la Ce- 



Syn. pise. 65. pede Hist, des Poissons, v. 



S. maculls rubris, maxilla I89. 



JLT is matter of surprize that this common fish 

 has escaped the notice of all the antients, except 

 Ausonius : it is also singular, that so delicate a 

 species should be neglected at a time when the 

 folly of the table was at its height, and that the 

 epicures should overlook a fish which is found 

 in such quantities in the lakes of their neighbor- 

 hood, when they ransacked the universe for 

 dainties. The milts of Murance were brought 

 from one place ; the livers of Scari from ano- 

 ther ;* and Oysters even from so remote a spot 

 as our Santkvich :-\ but there was, and is, a fa- 

 shion in the article of o;ood living. The Romans 

 seem to have despised the trout, the piper, and 

 the doree; and we believe Mr. Quin himself 



* Svetonius, vita Vitellii. «f Juvenal Sat. IV. 141. 



