Class IV. SHAD. 349 



cifion, as to induce us to trandate it the Shady 

 without affixing to it our fceptic mark. Aujonius 

 has been equally negligent in refpefl to Ki^ Alaufa: 

 all he tells us is, that it was a very bad fifh : 



Stridente/que focis ohfonia plehis A L A U s A S • 



Alaufce crackling on the embers are 

 Of wretched poverty, th' infipid fare. 



But commentators have agreed to render the 

 ^i^Mjca of the firft, and the Alaufa of the lad, bv 

 the word Sbad, Perhaps they were dire<51:ed by the 

 authority of Straho^ who mentions the 0ficr<7« the 

 fuppofed Shad^ and the Kirfryj, or Mullet^ as fifh 

 that afcend the Nik at certain feafons, which, with 

 the Bolphin^^ of that river, he fays, are the only 

 kinds that venture up from the fea for fear of the 

 crocodile. That the two firft are fifh of palTao-e 

 in the AVZf, is confirmed to us by Behnhis^^ and 

 by HaffelquifiX' The laft fays it is found in the 

 Mediterranean near Smyrna^ and on the coaft of 

 Mgypt, near Rofetto-, and that in the months Becen> 

 her and January it afcends the Nile^ as high aa 

 Cairo : that k is Ruffed with pot marjoram, and 



* This h the DoIj>hin of the N:k, a fiOi now- unknown to 

 m, Pli7iy lib, VIII, c. 25, fays, it had a fh-arp fin on its back, 

 with which it deftroyed the crocodile, by thrufting i{ into the 

 belly of that animal, the only penetrable place. 



t Belon. It in. 98, 



% P, 385, 388. >y«f4/^ edition. 



