Clafs IV. Mee Loy ae. 279 
Kespevs joey maslnow & ey ebeyowner Aivorn, 
ain doAov Tt wegideomnov iyvoinrev. 
The ovat euanes Aerinuévos Vdaros CTE 
Ophos dvw crevduy soooy chives wApcrs xegu 
Oeunoas Bzrns dt caspoavos 2 tmarnce® 
Tloaadus yep pimnc ea Ioura melopaacr os Pera 
Pridiaos UmEeganro, Maer fEndves pegoto. 
Ei 0 oy * aivoquenbess mearey SOO, GUTIS onda 
PEG Becxov, au tr EwWeTe PraiGeraut, 20 evogsety 
Axyipevos® aeion 8 pacday chmomavEeTcrs Op[Ans. 
The Mullet*, when encircling {eines inclofe, 
The fatal threads and treach’rous bofom knows. 
Inftant he rallies all his vig’rous powers, 
And faithful aid of every nerve implores ; 
O’er battlements of cork up-darting flies, 
And finds from air th’ efcape that fea denies. 
But fhould the firft attempt his hopes deceive, 
And fatal {pace th’imprifon’d fall receive, 
Exhaufted ftrength no fecond leap fupplies ; 
Self-doom’d to death the proftrate victim lies, 
Refign’d with painful expectation waits, 
?Till thinner eiements compleat his fates. Jonas. 
Oppian had good opportunity of examining thefe 
fifh, for they fwarm during fome feafons on the 
coafts of the Mediterranean. Near Martegues, in 
the fouth of France, abundance of mullets are taken 
in weres made of reeds placed in the fhallows. Of 
the milts of the males, which are there called A//e- 
tants, and of the roes of the females, which are 
called Botar, is made Botargo. ‘The materials are 
taken out entire, covered with fale for four or five 
hours, then preffed a little hetween two boards or 
ftones, wafhed, and at laft dried in the fun for 
thirteen or fourteen days**. 
* Mr. Fones, by miftake, tranflates it, the Bardel. 
** Mr. Willoughby’s notes during his travels. Vide Harriss Col. 
fe i 721. 
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