228 PEOSE HAI/IBTJTICS. 



called KvpToi,* smelling of myrrh, and containing a sa- 

 voury bait. 



A paste in luscious wine tlie captor steeps, 

 Mix'd with, the balmy tears that Myrrhaf weeps ; 

 Around the trap diffusive fragrance rolls, 

 And calls with certain charms the caranx shoals ; 

 They crowd the arch, and soon each joyful swain 

 Finds nor his labour nor his care in vain. J 



The Doky. 



Ne nos alienigeni pisces decipiant, non enim omni mari potest 

 omnia esse ; ut Atlantico faber, qui et in nostro Gadium muni- 

 cipio generosissimis piscibus adnumeratur : cum prisca consue- 

 tudine Zeum appeUamus. — Colum. de Re Rustica. 



John Dory, as we write the supposed name and sur- 

 name of this scombrian at present, has so Anglican a 

 sound, that with many it passes for genuine English, 

 and it is alleged, in corroboration of this notion, that 

 John Quia, whose partiality for the fish is well known, 

 bequeathed the first monosyllable of the Ulustrious two 

 to the Dory, which became ia consequence John Dory, 

 or John's dory, ever afterwards, — but this is a mistake ; 

 the name, however English in sound, or, as now written, 

 in look, is certainly foreign, and derived either from the 

 French or Italian. If French originally, it may be a 

 corruption of jaune dwe, golden yellow, which gives a 

 correct notion of the hue of the fish; or dory, as it 



* These Kvproi., or wicker traps, were left in the water all night, 

 and the fish caught removed in the morning. Hence the proverb, 

 ivbovTt KvpTos alpet — 



The kurtos keeps. 

 Though the owner sleeps, 

 t Vide, for the tale of this Assyrian damsel's criminal passion, 

 and her subsequent metamorphosis into the myrrh gum-tree, 

 Oppian, 4 Hal. 

 I 0pp. J. J. t. 



