Class IV. TUNNY. 267 



merce ; the time of its arrival into the Mediterra- 

 7iean from the ocean v/as obferved, and ftations for 

 taking them eftablifhed in places it moft frequent- 

 ed ; the eminencies above the fifhery were ftyled 

 Q>-j\:vQ<TK0'7rzia, *, and the watchmen that gave notice to 

 thofe below of the motions of the fifli, 0y wocrxoVo: -[-, 

 From one of the former the lover in Theocritus 

 threatened to take a defperate leap, on account of 

 hifi miftreis's cruelty. 



Tav QffJnav aTfo^ug sTg HVfjLaTa twoc Se,7<.EUfj.ai 



S^TTso Tu<; ©TNNXIS a-KOTria^BTcii 'Ot^tth; o y^i'^'Evg, 



Do you not hear ? then, rue your Goat-herd's fate^, 

 For, from the rock where 0/pis doth defcry 

 The numerous Thunny, I will plunge and die. 



The very fame ftation, in all probability, is at 

 this time made ufe of, as there are very confider- 

 able thunny filheries on the coafi: of Sicily^ as well 

 as feveral other parts of the Mediterranean^, , where 

 they are cured, and make a great article of pro- 

 vifion in the adjacent kingdoms. They are caught 



* Straho LiL V. 156. 



f Oppian Halieut. III. 638. This perfon anfwers to what 

 the Cornijh call a Huer, who watches the arrival of the pil- 

 chards. 



X Many of them are the fameHhat were ufed by the antients, 

 as we learn from Oppian and others, 



in 



