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far and near; see Horace, Sat., IJ. 2, 31; Macrobius, Sat., II. 
12; and Juvenal, V. 103-8. The latter’s “et solitus medize 
cryptam penetrare Subure ’’ was rendered quite clear only in 
1743, when the remains of the Cloaca leading from the low- 
lying ground to the Tiber were excavated. From this greedy 
scavenging he is christened by Lucilius (Sat. 4, frag., 127, 
Baehrens) “‘ the platter-licker ’’ (catillo)— 
‘‘ Hunc pontes Tiberinus duo inter captus catillo.” ! 
The -Doctors once more are at variance. The Court, 
unanimous that (in Walton’s phrase) “its savour was excel- 
lent,” only by a majority (Galen and Celsus J.J.) upheld its 
nutritive powers, Hicesius J. dissenting. Rondolet against 
the volume of authority affirms that the Lupus of the sea is 
of better quality than that of the river. Pliny 2 dubs the 
Lupus “ lanatus ’’—not from his woolly appearance, or woolly 
taste, but from the whiteness of his flesh—laudatissimus. 
But by the time of Domitian it has fallen from its proudest 
place. 
Its Aristophanic title of ‘‘ the wisest of fish ’’ was earned by 
its cunning in escape from net or hook; its method in the case 
of the former is vouched for by Cassiodorus,? and of the latter 
by Ovid.4 
‘* quassatque caput, dum vulnere sevus 
Laxato cadat hamus et ora patentia linquat.” 
Pliny, commenting on the marvellous friendships and 
hatreds which exist among fish, instances the astounding 
combination of both in the /upus and the mugil (grey mullet), 
“who burn with mutual hate for some, yet live in concord for 
other, months of the year’’—despite the cheery custom, 
hereditary in the /upus, of nibbling off the tail of the mugil ; all, 
however, live, ‘‘ quibus caudae sic amputentur.”’ 5 
1 Cf. Macrobius, Sat., II. 12: ‘‘Lucilius ... eum .. . quasi ligurritorem 
catillonem appellat, scilicet qui proxime ripas stercus insectaretur.”” A propos 
of ‘ Catillo,’ there is a quaint remark in the Gloss. Salom., ‘‘ Nomen piscis a 
catino dictus ob cuius suavitatem homines catinum corrodunt ’’—the fish was 
so delicious it made one fairly bite the dish ! 
2 TX. 28. 
3 Epist., XI. 40. 
4 Hal., 41 f. 
5 N. H., 1X., 88; Arist., H. A., 1X. 3. 
