CHAPTEE VII. 

 NAPLES BAY AND FISH-MARKET. 



Kia'(rfip€ts o-)^6ai ^mpd t uktcl 

 7roKv(TTd(j)vKos. — Soph. 



Parthenope. ... 

 Cui Eegina auo fecit de nomine nomen, 

 An virides memorem soopulos, pisoosaque saxa, 

 Et tot muacosis exoisa in rupibus antra P 

 Anne sinus tantos ? te Polli, teque beato 

 Cum portu Miaene tuo, et te moLe Dicarclram ? 

 Et Prochyten pomis vemamtem, et pinguibus uvis ? 

 Piscosas iUinc Capreas, Fanumque, Minervae, 

 Et Vici coUes, et pampineum Surrentum ? 



GiANNETASius, SalieuUc, lib. i. 



IN discoursing, as our purpose is in the following pages, 

 on the ancient fish of the Mediterranean, it may not 

 be out of place, hefore proceeding to particulars, to give 

 a slight introductory sketch of that most beautiful and 

 prolific of natural Vivaria, the Bay of Naples, which not 

 only abounds with living representatives of almost every 

 species presently to be brought before the reader, but is 

 moreover a site which, alike from its waters and its shores, 

 awakes the liveliest reminiscences of the 'fishiana' of 

 other days. On the Vesuvian side, many an elaborate 

 mosaic and brilliant little fresco of painted fish adorn 

 the walls and flooring of the houses of Pompeii and 

 Herculaneum, looking, after an eighteen hundred years' 

 potting in a lava pie-crust, almost as fresh and ruddy as 

 their readily recognized descendants in the NeapoUtan 

 pescherias. The PausUippo side of the harbour is yet 

 more suggestive of old halieutic associations : thence 



