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When bleating concerts and the deeper sound 

 Of shepherds echo through the vast profound. 

 With eager haate th' unwieldly Sargos move, 

 By nature slow, but swift to meet tieir love ; 

 With wanton gambols greet the homed fair. 

 Vault o'er the waves and flutter in the air ; 

 Unhappy lovers, who too soon shall find, 

 Their pleasures hollow and their goats unkind. 

 Deceitful swains, the fatal hint improve. 

 And arm the flattering destinies with love. 

 A goat-skin o'er his back the fisher throws. 

 And sets th' erected horns above his brows ; 

 The flesh and fat incorporates with flour. 

 And scatters o'er the flood a foodful shower. 

 The fair disguise and scented victuals' charms. 

 With joint attraction call the finny swarms ; 

 They round the mimic goat in crowds repair. 

 Thoughtless their sports, their joys insincere. 

 Poor ignorants ! a deadly mate they find. 

 His shape familiar, but estranged his mind. 

 A sturdy rod his latent hand extends. 

 The flaxen cordage from the top descends. 

 The fleshy feet of goats linhoof 'd conceal 

 With odoriferous bait the barbed steel ; 

 With unsuspicious haste the fish devours. 

 Mounts to the jerk, and tumbles on the shores. 



John Jones, trans. 



The old names for the modern dentice were in Latin 

 dentex, and in Greek crvvoSovi. In both languages the 

 fish received its appellation from a very beautiful apparatus 

 of teeth ; but whether the Greek original ought in fact to 

 be Kiw6Bov<!, i. e. dog-toothed^ or, as it has descended to 

 usj (rvvoSov! (which, from the beautiful symmetry of the 

 rdcle of its masticators, is an epithet equally befitting 

 the fish), is a vexed question still in Chancery: and 

 being moreover as important and difficult as the homo- 

 ousian and homoiousian controversy, we need scarcely 

 crave our readers' indulgence for leaving it to future cri- 

 tics of the Aulus Gellius school, and lovers of the tedi- 

 ously minute in general, to determine. The import of 



