ClagIV. RED SURMULLET. 227 
Genus XXXI. Head compreffed, fteep, and co- 
vered with {cales. 
‘Two branchioftegous rays. 
Body covered with large feales, 
eafily dropping off. 
SURMULLET. 
eo Phe RR ED) SseU RR Mow fb Lek ot. 
Teryan? Arif. Hif. an. lib. Petermanneken, Goldeken. 
ii, Oppian Halieut.1.590- ©  — Schonevelde. 47. 
Telyan Zwpewv. Athenaus. lib. Mullus Bellonii. Wil. Icth. 285. 
vil. 325. Rati fyn. pife. ow 
Mullus. Owvid. Halieut. 123. Trigla capite glabro, cirris ge- 
Plinii lib. ix. c. V7» minis in maxilla inferiore. 
Triglia. Salvian. 235. Arted. fynon. 71. 
Le Rouget barbé, Surmurlet. Mullus cirris geminis, corpo- 
 Belon. 170. re rubro. Lin. fff. 495. Gro- 
Mullus barbatus. Ronde. 290. 80> Zooph. No. 286. 
Gefner pife. 565. 
| ses fifh was highly efteemed by the Romans, 
and bore an exceeding hich price. The ca- 
‘pricious epicures of Horace’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 Fuvenal, and Phny, is a ftriking evidence of the 
Auxury and extravagance of the age: 
Mullum fex millibus emit 
A quantem Jane paribus Jeftertia libris **. 
The lavith flave 
Six thoufand pieces fora Mullet gave, 
A fefterce for each pound. Drrosn. 
K Sat. lib. ti. f. ti, 33. ** Fuvenal. Sat. iv. 481, 8s. od. 
But 
