DOLPHIN AND SCHOOLBOY 95 
gleanings of the industrious A. Gellius,! that I can draw atten- 
tion to two stories only. These illustrate the relations existing 
between the Dolphin, and (a) the boy of Baiz as set forth by 
Pliny (1X. 8), and (’) the boy of Iasos by Oppian (V. 468), 
Atheneus (XIII. 85), and lian (VI. 15).? 
In the last two occurs the pretty tale of the fish waiting 
daily till school ended to take the beloved lad for swims and 
larks in the sea, but without the refinement found elsewhere 
of waiting every morning and afternoon to carry him to and 
from school! To the spectacle in Iasian waters of their play 
and of their races (‘‘ to bring the thorough-bred and the donkey 
together ”’ 4 la Admiral Rous, the fish must have been crushingly 
handicapped !) : 
“ Drawn by Report to see the strange Amour 
Admiring Nations crowded to the Shore. 
Rapt with delight, surveyed their am’rous Game 
And owned the Sight superior to the Fame.” 
But alas! soon was ‘their am’rous Game’”’ to end. 
One day the lad, tired and eager for a bathe, threw himself 
on his comrade’s back, only however to impale himself on the 
dorsal spike and gradually bleed to death. No sooner did the 
Dolphin perceive the water tinged with blood, than ‘‘ with the 
force of a full-sailed Rhodian ship,’”’ he drave straight for land, 
flung himself and his burden high and dry on the strand, and 
there, by the side of his beloved dead, abode until death came 
unto him also. 
To testify that these twain “‘ were lovely and pleasant in 
their lives, and in their death they were not divided,’’ the 
citizens of Iasos erected a monument, showing the beautiful 
boy astride the back of the Dolphin, and issued coins bearing 
the effigies of each, which were sought far as souvenirs by bands 
of pilgrims attracted thither by the story. In such regard 
1 Noctes Attica, 6. 8. 1-7. 
2 For instances in classical mythology of rescues from drowning, and of 
corpses brought ashore, see A. B. Cook, Zeus (Cambridge, 1914), i. p. 170, and 
tor similar hagiographical instances, see S. Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints 
(London, 1873-82), passim. C. Cahier, Caractéristiques des Saints dans l'art 
populaive (Paris, 1867), ii. 691 ff., gives an account full of interest, which is 
increased by his illustrations of Saints accompanied by fish. 
