310 PEOSE HALIETITICS. 



cessitj ibique camem, morsu appetens^ dolores, imo vitae 

 periculunij affert : urinse odore hi pisciculi valde aUiciim- 

 tur, quam ob causam accolae intraturi flumen Amazo- 

 nium, cujus sinus hac peste abimdatj prseputium ligula 

 constringunt, et a miagendo abstinent.' 



Salmonid^. 



Et salmo pictus auieis frequens guttis 

 Extrema continentis ambiens Serae, 

 Qua proditores pejerant Proanmatas, 

 Nostrasque dedignatua ingredi ripas, 

 Adversus obluctatur amni G-anmmse. 



8calig. in Ota. 



With several members of the large -family of Salmo- 

 nidse (easily distinguished by the second fatty dorsal fin) 

 the ancients were doubtless acquainted, ^lian, ia a 

 chapter entitled ' On an unusual mode of fishing prac- 

 tised in Macedonia/ speaks, as we have elsewhere no- 

 ticed, of certain speckled fish, l)(6vei r-qv "xpoav Kard- 

 cTTiicrot (the name he advises the curious to make out 

 from the Macedonians themselves), -which are secured, 

 he says, by the device of an artificial fly called hippurus, 

 for the due dubbiag of ■which (not to encumber our 

 text -with too much Greek) the reader may consult the 

 appended note.* That these speckled fish were some 

 species of trout, is rendered extremely probable from the 

 above mode of takuig them. Menesitheus, in Athenaeus, 

 speaks of certain fish ' called pyruntes, excellent for the 

 table, easy of digestion, and only found in clear, rapid, 

 and cold streams:' which were also probably some kind 



* Olov T& ayKurrpa irepi^aWova-iv tpiov (j>oiviKOvu, ijpiJ,o<TTai tc 

 Tffl fpio) Suo TTTepa oKeKTpvovos, vwo rots KaWeocs Tref^uKora, Koi Krjpa 

 Trjv xpoav napeiKaa-fUva. The line to which this was attached was 

 four cubits, and the rod was of the same length as the line. 



