WAS THE ANGLER’S ?—TIBULLUS 151 
To conclude, whether harundo here be a weapon for capture 
of birds or of fish, it is now established beyond any doubt or 
contradiction that there was used in and probably long before 
Martial’s time! a Reed Rod, capable of extension, either by 
protruding a smaller cane through a larger one, or else, perhaps, 
by an action somewhat similar to a chimney-sweep’s, with 
jointed rods fastened together in the hand, when prolonging 
his brush. 
If such a Reed Rod was found of service to the fowler for 
reaching a bird on a high branch, is it not extremely probable, 
is it not almost certain, that in spite of no express mention of 
such use the fisherman also employed a similar jointed rod for 
the purpose—common alike to his primitive predecessor and 
his more advanced successor—of getting the bait over any 
obstacles which lay between him and the water, and for in- 
creasing both the reach of his arm and the length of his throw ? 2 
Whether the Rod of the piscator was similar to that of the 
aucupator or not, we do find these two pursuits, with but one 
verb for both, coupled in two of Tibullus’s beautiful lines on 
Hope (II. 6, 23). His Hope is very reminiscent of St. Paul’s 
Charity or Love, which ‘‘ beareth all things, believeth all things, 
hopeth all things, endureth all things. Love never faileth.” 
“ Hec laqueo volucres, hec captat harundine pisces 
Cum tenues hamos abdidit ante cibus.” 
“Tis Hope, that taketh birds with the Snare, fish with the Rod 
with fine Hooks well hidden in the bait.” 
Panormus, those for fishing (harundo piscatoria) from Abaris in Lower Egypt. 
Pliny, XVI. 66. For a legal decision as to the selling, etc., of reeds, see Digesta 
Justiniani, VII. 1, 9, 5. 
1 Possibly in the time of Aristophanes, 
was Tis ep’ duly dpyiBeuThs 
tornot Bpdxous, mayldas, pdBdous, k.7.A. 
Aves, 526 f. 
In the seventh century B.c. the Chinese mention the Ch’ih Kan or the “ glu 
tinous line for catching birds.” Cf. Apuleius, Met., XI. 8. 
2 The epitaph in Corpus Inscvipt. Lat., ii. 2335, is of interest : 
d. (M.] Quintus Marius Optatus 
heu iuvenis tumulo qualis iacet a[bditus isto,] 
qui pisces iaculo capiebat missile dextra, 
aucupium calamo preter studiosus agebat . . . 
Cf. Caym. Lat. Epig., no, 412. 
