400 RIVER TROUT SALMON. Class IV. 



would have resigned the rich paps of a pregnant 

 sow,* the heels of camels, f and the tongues of 

 Flamingos,^ though dressed by Heliogabalus's 

 cooks, for a good jowl of salmon with lobster 

 sauce. 



When Ausonius speaks of this fish, he makes 

 no eulogy on its goodness, but celebrates it only 

 for its beauty. 



Purpureisque Salar stellatus tergore guttis. 

 With purple spots the Salar's back is stained. 



These marks point out the species he intend- 

 ed : what he meant by his Fario is not so easy 

 to determine : whether any species of trout, of 

 a size between the salar and the salmon ; or 

 whether the salmon itself, at a certain age, is 

 not very evident. 



Teque inter geminos species, neutrumque et utrumque, 

 Q?n nee dum SxuiT&pnec Salar ambiguusque. 

 Amhorum medio Fario inter cepte sub cevo. 



Salmon or salar, I'll pronounce thee neither ; 

 A doubtful kind, that may be none, or either, 

 Fario, when stopt in middle growth. 



In fact the colors of the trout, and its spots, 

 vary greatly in different waters, and in different 



* Martial, Lib. XIII Epig. 44. 



■f Lamprid. vit. Heliogab. 



\ Martial, Lib. XII. Epig. 71. 



