Class IV. STINGRAY, 95 



T^wywy. Jrifi. Hi ft. an. lib. Steckroche. Grone TepeL 38. Sting. 



VIII. c. 13. IX. 37. Op- Schone^elde, 58. 



pian. Halieut. I. 1 04. II, Pallinaca marina Isvis. WiL 



462. pifc' 67. 



Pallinaca Plinii lib, IX. <r. 42. Fire Flaire. Raiifyn. pifc. 24. 



38. Ra.ia. ?a.iiina.ca,. Lzn.j^^. ^g6. 



La Paflenade de mer. Tour- Raia corpore glabro, aculeo 



terelle, ou Tareronde. £e- longo anterius ferrato, cauda 



Ion 83. apterygia. Jrted. fynon, 



Paflinaca. Rondel. 331. Gef- 100. Grono^j. Zsoph. No, 



ner pifc. 679. 158. 



THE weapon with which nature has armed this 

 fiih, hath fupplied the antients with many 

 tremendous fables relating to it. P/%, Mlian^^ 

 ^ndi Oppian^ have given it a venom that affefts even 

 the inanimate creation : trees that are flruck by it 

 inftantly lofe their verdure and perifh, and rocks 

 themfelves are incapable of refilling the potent poi- 

 fon. 



The enchantrefs Circe., armed her fon with a 

 fpear headed with the fpine of the Trygon^ as the 

 mod: irrefiftible weapon flie could furnifh him with^ 

 and with which he afterwards committed parri- 

 cide, unintentionally, on his father Ulyjfes. 



That fpears and darts might, in very early 

 times, have been headed with this bone inflead of 

 iron, we have no kind of doubt : that of another 

 fpecies of this fifh being ftill ufed to point the ar- 



Hifl' an. lib. It r, 36, 



rows "i 



