Class IV. REF SURMULLET. 



■71 



Head comprefTed, deep, and covered with fcales. 



Two branchioftegous rays. 



Body covered with large fcales, eafily dropping off. 



XXX. 



SURMUL^ 



LET. 



T^/yXvj ? AriJ}, HiJI. an. Lib. 



II. Oppian Halieut. I. 590. 

 T^/yAv? Xcotp^m. AtheneeuSy 



Lib. Vll. 325. 

 Mullus. O'uid Halieut. 123. 



Plinii lib. IX. c, ly. 

 Triglia. Salvian. 235. 

 Le Rouget barbe, Surmurlet. 



Belon, 170. 

 Mullus barbatus. Rondel- 290. 



Gefner pifc. 565. 



Petermanneken , Goldeken. 



Schone^veldef 47. 

 Mullus Bellonii, WiL Icth. 



285. Haiifyn. pifc, 90. 

 Trigla capite glabro, cirrls 



geminis in maxilla inferiore. 



Arted.fynon, 71. 

 Mullus cirris geminis, corpore 



rubro. Lin,fyfi, 495. Gro^ 



mrv. Zooph, No. 286. 



135. Red. 



THIS fi(h was highly efteemed by the Romans^ 

 and bore an exceeding high price. The 

 capricious epicures of i7(?r^f^'s* days, valued it in 

 proportion to its fize \ not that the larger were 

 more delicious, but that they were more difficult 

 to be got. The price that was given for one in the 

 time of Juvenal^ and P/Z/zj, is a ftriking evidence 

 of the luxury and extravagance of the age : 



Mullumy^;v millibus emit 

 JEquantem fane paribus fefiertia librisf. 



* Sat, Lib,lh/,IL 33. 



t yuvsnalSat, IV. 48 1. 8 s. 9d. 



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