350 TT RS OUTS ee 
iv) The 4 Oo ern 
Salar. Au/enius Mofél. £8. A Trout. Wil. Ich. 199.” Raii 
Salar et varius, Trotta. Sal- jpn. pie. 65. 
vian. 90. S. maculis rubris, maxilla in- 
La Truitte. Belon. 274. _ feriore longiore. Arted. /ynon. 
Trutta fluviatilis. Rezdel. flu- 234 
.. wiat. 169. Gefner pifc. 1002. Salmo Fario. Lin. Syft. 509 
Foren, Forellen. Schonevelde. Laxoring, Forel, Ca bis, 
HR Faun. fuec. No. 348. 
‘T is matter of furprize that this common fifth 
has efcaped the notice of allthe antients, except 
Aufonius : it is alfo fingular, that fo delicate a fpecies 
fhould be neglected at a time when the folly of the 
table was at its herght ; and that the epicures fhould 
overlook ‘a fith that is found in fuch quantities in 
the lakes of ‘their neighborhood, when they ran- 
facted the untverfe for dainties. “The milts of Mu- 
rene were brought from one place ; the livers of 
Scavi from another *; and Oy/ers even from {fo re- 
mote a {pot as our Sandwich ** : but there was, and 
is a fafhion in the article of sah living. The Ro- 
mans feem to have defpifed the trout, the piper, and 
the doree; and we believe Mr. Qun himfelf would 
have refigned the rich paps of a pregnant fow+, the 
heels of camels =, and the tongues of Flamingos §, 
tho’ drefied by Heliogabalus’s cooks, for a good jowl 
of falmon with lobfter fauce. 
MS Suetonius, vita Vitellii. ** Fuvenal Sat.iv.141. + Mar- 
tial. Lib. xiii. pig. 44. 4 -Lamprid. vit. Heliogab. — § Mar- 
tial libs xii. epig. 71. 
When 
