$04? MEDITERRANEAN REMORA* 



1;ines ; so offensive and dangerous to bouge and 

 pierce any enemie ship which they doe encopntre. 

 Certes, reported it is, that in the naval battaile 

 before Actium, wherein Antonius and Cleopatra 

 the queene were defeited by Augustus, one of 

 these fishes staied the admirall ship wherein M. 

 Antonius was, at what time as he made all the 

 hast and meanes he could devise with help of 

 ores to encourage his people from ship to ship, 

 and could not prevaile, untill he was forced to 

 abandon the said admirall and goe into another 

 galley. Meanwhile the armada of Augustus Cm- 

 sar, seeing this disorder, charged with greater 

 violence, and soone invested the fleete of Antonie. 

 Of late daies also, and within our remembrance 

 the like happened to the Roiall ship of the Em- 

 perour Cuius Caligula, at what time as he rowed 

 backe, and made saile from Astura to Antium; 

 when and where this little fish detained his ship* 

 and (as it fell out afterward) presaged an unfortu- 

 nate event thereby : for this was the last time that 

 ever this Emperour made his returne to Rome; 

 and no sooner was he arrived, but his own soul- 

 diours in a mutinie fell upon him and stabbed 

 him to death. And yet it was not long ere the 

 cause of this wonderfull staie of his ship was 

 knowne : for so soon as ever the vessel (and a 

 galliace it was, furnished with five bankes of ores 

 to a side) was perceived alone in the fleete to 

 stand still, presentlie a number of tall fellows 

 leapt out of their ships into the sea, to search 

 jvhat the reason might be that it stirred not ? 



