88 MULLET FISHERIES. 



too, great numbers of the grey mullet may be met 

 with, swimming with their heads out of the 

 water. The grey mullet is now called KtfyaXog, 

 and is, probably, the fish of the same name 

 mentioned by Aristotle. When in the eighth 

 book he draws a distinction between the Ke<pa\og 

 and K£(T7|0£uc, (which was assuredly the grey mullet 

 also,) on account of the good effect of rain and 

 fresh-water on the latter, and the injuries they 

 cause to the former, it is possible he applied the 

 term KS(f>a\og 9 in the passage in question, to some 

 other large-headed fish. His statement, that the 

 mullet does not eat flesh, reminds us of the rare 

 occurrence of one having been taken by bait 

 when the Beacon lay in the bay of Macri. 



There is a great mullet fishery carried on in 

 Caria, close to the site of the city of Caunus, 

 the capital of Peraea. This fishery probably 

 existed in ancient times as well as in modern. 

 Aristotle distinguished two kinds of the KetpaKog, 

 the %z\u)v 9 and the Kepaiag. Could the latter 

 name have been connected with this locality, 

 now famous for its mullets throughout the 

 iEgean ? The " fresh-water /aX^i?, which swims 

 in troops, and is caught in nets," was most likely 

 also one of the varieties of grey mullet, — Mugil 



