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Les XV livres de Deipnoso- 



phistes d'Athen^e, traduits du grec en 

 frangois; par TAbb^ de Marolles. 

 Paris, 1680. 4°. Pre-Linn. 1680.1 



This is the best old edition issued at Paris. 

 Other French editions are those of 1798, and 

 that of 1819 in three volumes translated by 

 Lefevre Villebrune. 



Of modern issues, the one considered by 

 Cuvier and by Brunet to be the best is that 

 issued at Strassburg in 14 vols, by Schweig- 

 hauser, 1801-07. A later edition and probably 

 the best of all is that by Kaibel issued 1887-90. 



An English translation by C. D. Yonge is to 

 be found in Bohn's Classical Library, London, 

 1884, under the title "The deipnosophists or the 

 banquet of the learned." In this translation, 

 vol. I, book III, chaps, lxxxv-xciv, fish as food; 

 vol. I, book VI, chaps, i-xii, fishmongers and 

 fishermen; vol. II, book vii, chaps, iv-cxl, 

 some 85 or more fishes are referred to; book viii, 

 voices of fishes, fossil fishes, subterranean fishes, 

 rain of fishes, fish eaters, restoration after freez- 

 ing, sounds made by fishes, migration of fishes, 

 amphibious fishes, particular fishes used for 

 food, etc. 



Athenffius, a Greek rhetorician of Naucratis, 

 Egypt, was author of a number of works of 

 which "The Banquet of the Learned" only is 

 extant. It is an immense storehouse of miscel- 

 laneous information written in the form of the 

 table talk of a number of writers and philos- 

 ophers who were entertained at a great banquet 

 by a wealthy patron of art and literature. Its 

 great value is due to the fact that it is full of 

 quotations from writers whose works are no 

 longer extant, and who but for Athenaeus, 

 would be lost to us. He quotes 800 authors and 

 2500 separate writings. 



" As a work of art it [the Deipnosophistarum] 

 can take but low rank, butas a repertory of 

 fragments and morsels of information, it is 

 invaluable." 



Aurivillius, Joh. {res-pond.) Disser- 

 tatio de natura piscium in genere, et 

 piscatura. Holmiae, 1676. 4°. ' 



Pre-Linn. 1676.1 



Magnus Celsius, vroeses. 



Ausonius, Deciics Magnus [310-395] 

 Ausonii Burdigalensis, viri consularis 

 Mosella, edylhum tertia. Burdigale, 

 1580. fol. Pre-Linn. 1580.1 



This idyll, entitled the "Mosella," was 

 written about 370 A. D. It contains recogniz- 

 able descriptions of the species of fish found in 

 the Moselle, among them the brook and salmon 

 trout. 



Mosella . . . commentario il- 



lustrata. Mussiponti, 1615. 8°. 



Pre-Linn. 1615.1 



A black letter edition with commentaries by 

 Focher was printed at Heidelberg, 1619, in 

 foUo. 



■ Opera. Venice, 1472. fol. 



Pre-Linn. 1472.1 



The "Opera" of Ausonius have appeared in 

 many editions of which this is the first. At 

 least 10 editions are known ante 1758, the three 

 earliest being; 1472, 1494, 1496. For further 

 bibliographical details, see Westwood & Satchell. 



The "Mosella" is contained also in "Poeta- 

 riim Latinorum minorum," vol. I, p. 192, edited 

 by Johann C. Wernsdorff, Altenburg, 1780. 



Oken in Isis, 1845, columns 5-44, reprints 

 the "Mosella" with a parallel German transla- 

 tion. He then identifies the 16 fishes of Auso- 

 nius, and gives many references to these fish in 

 the writings of 16th and 17th century authors. 



There is also a modern annotated edition by 

 Hosius, published at Marburg in 1894, com- 

 mented upon by J. Wimmer in his "Geschichte 

 des deutschen Bodens," p. 322-384. Halle, 

 1905. 



Modern editions of the Mosella in Latin and 

 German were issued: Coblenz, 1802; Hamm^, 

 1824; Berlin, 1828; Altona, 1832, and Cologne, 

 1837. The best German edition is probably 

 that of Neumann, Trier, 1846; the best French, 

 by Corpet, Paris, 1843. 



