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jilletants^ and of the roes of the females, which 

 are called Botar^ is made Botargo, The materials 

 are taken out entire, covered with falc for four or 

 five hours, then prefled a little between two boards 

 or Hones, wafhedj and at laft dried in the fun for 

 thirteen or fourteen days*. 



This iifh was fometimes made the inftrument 

 oT a horrible punifhment for unfortunate gallants. 

 It was in ufe both at Athens \ and at Rome^y but we 

 doubt much whether it was a legal one: for we ra- 

 ther fufped: it was inflicted inftantaneoufly by the 

 injured and enraged hufband, at a feafon when 



puror arma miniftrat, 



Juvenal feems to fpeak of it in that light as well 

 as Horace : the former, relating the revenge taken 

 by the exafperated fpoufe, defcribes it as very va- 

 rious \ 



Necat hie f err 0^ fecat ilk cruentis 

 Verherihus^ quofdam machos et PvIugilis intrat J. 



The paiTage in Horace feems not to have been 

 attended to by the critics \ but when he mentions 



* Mr. Willughhy\ notes during his travels. Vide Harrises 

 Col, Voy. II. 721. 



f Legibus Athenienfmm adulteri ev soya deprehenji pana frit 

 pa^avo^cocrig . Raphani loco utebantur nonnunquam mugile pifcs, 

 interdum fcorpione. Caufauboni animad-vers. in Athenasum, 

 lib. I, 



% Satyr, X. 316 



the 



