BUT PROBABLY USED FAR EARLIER Igl 
Further requirements are “corks, and wood, and iron, 
and of things they need, are reeds well-grown, and nets, and 
soaked rushes, a shaved wand, and a dog-wood Rod, and the 
horns and hide of a she-goat.” The equipment is as ample 
as amazing. What use, in the name of every fishing Deity, 
unless the author is referring to Oppian’s method, did the 
Angler make of the “‘ horns and hide of a she-goat ”’ ? 
ABlian concludes with dAdo 8 GAAw Tobtwv ixDb¢ aipet ra, 
which antedates the tale of the millionaire, who, reproached 
with having brought a thousand times too many flies, ejaculated, 
‘‘ with some of these, if I can’t get a salmon, maybe I'll strike 
a sucker’! 
In XV. 10, which deals with the capture of pelamyde or 
young tunny fish, one of the crew sitting at the stern lets 
down on either side of the ship lines with hooks. On each 
hook he ties a bait (perhaps not a bait in our modern technical 
sense, but rather a lure) wrapped in wool of Laconian red, 
and to each hook attaches the feather of a seamew.! 
Let us set aside, because of lian’s haphazard method of 
arrangement, any argument which might otherwise fairly be 
adduced from the following facts. (A) He expressly sets 
forth in XII. 43 (three books before he mentions the Macedonian 
device) ved and other wools and feathers as part of the ordinary 
tackle of an Angler—most probably in river or lake, for here, 
unlike XV. ro, where the prey is a sea-fish, we have no mention 
of aship, oars, etc. (B) When he does mention the Macedonian 
device, he does not announce it in any way as a new invention 
or a striking departure from the old methods of fishing, but 
quite simply, in the words: ‘I have heard of the Macedonian 
way of fishing, and it is this.” 
Setting aside, I repeat, any arguments thus to be deduced, 
we are face to face with the hard and curious fact, that in all 
three passages the materials, out of which the lures are con- 
structed, ave the same; they are wools of various colours, and 
feathers taken from birds, in XV. 1, from a cock, in XV. 10, 
from a seamew. 
Any assertion or suggestion that these wools and feathers 
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