190 AELIAN—FIRST ARTIFICIAL FLY 
seems to me to have been for a long time in more or less regular 
use. The materials necessary or employed for dressing flies 
are set forth in two other places by lian in this same work. 
The Macedonian fly is described at length and in special detail, 
probably because it marked an advance in making up a fly. 
I have not been able so far to find the passages in Bk. IIT. 
43, and Bk. XV. 10, mentioned (except in Bliimner’s general] 
list of fishing weapons under ‘‘ Fischfang’’1) or alluded to 
in connection with fly-making, much less brought into the 
prominence which their special pertinence of a surety deserves 
and demands. 
This omission may be due to previous writers being content 
with the authority and researches of Oliver and of Westwood 
and Satchell, and on the line of least exertion not pursuing the 
subject any further even in the pages of lian himself. If 
they had so pursued, they would have discovered in the first 
passage in Bk. XII. 43, which is separated by only three books, 
and in the second passage in Bk. XV. I0, which is separated 
by only nine chapters from the locus classicus in Bk. XV. I, 
strong reasons for qualifying their statement as to the Mace- 
donian “invention.” 
In Bk. XII. 43, Fishing is divided into four kinds—by 
Nets, Spears, Weels, and Hooks; that by hooks (ayxorpeta) 
is adjudged “‘ the most skilful, and the most becoming for free 
men,” that by Weels (xvprefa) the least so. In each class 
AZlian carefully enumerates the articles necessary or generally 
used. 
The list of those necessary for fishing with hooks, or Angling, 
recounts “natural horsehair, white, and black, and flame- 
coloured, and half-grey ; but of the dyed hair, they select only 
those that are grey, or of true sea-purple, for the rest, they 
say, are pretty poor. They use, too, the straight bristles of 
swine, and thread, and much copper and lead, and cords.” 
Now follow the important words—‘and feathers, chiefly 
white, or black, or various. They use two wools, red and blue.”’ * 
1 Die rimischen Privataltertiimer (Munich, t911), pp. 529-30. 
2 Kal wrepots, udAsora pey Aeviois Kal uéAagiy Kal moutiAos. xpavrai ye why of 
GAce?s Kad poivikots eplois kal GAoupyéot, K.T.A. 
