m 
TUNNY. 
— collecting all sorts together. Herodotus adds his testimony 
to the distinction, as also to the antiquity of the casting-net, 
which demanded considerable skill to use it successfully. His 
description, in the “Shield of Hercules,” is highly expressive: — 
“Two fist of silver scale. 
Panting above tbe wave, tbe fishes mute 
Gorged, that beneath them shook their quivering fins 
In brass; but ou the crag a fisher sate 
Observant; in his grasp he held a net. 
Like one that poising rises to the throw.”) 
“The scan was a drag-net: so the writer, whose letter I 
enclose, understands it; very large, enclosing the fish by its 
sweep, and then drawn towards the shore. The passage quoted 
from Habakkuk, chapter i, 15, might be more literally rendered 
— ‘they drew them under their casting-net, and surrounded 
them (or gathered them by surrounding) in their seans.’ I 
only mean this as a protest against regarding the AjijujiKrtarpov 
as a tuck-net inside the scan. The expression in Habakkuk 
is in the Hebrew style an amplification of the same idea. The 
writer of the enclosed does not allude to the huer. If I had 
been bred at St. John’s I should be tempted into that vile 
practice of punning, and say, ‘He was not up to him.” — qui 
est in altum promontorium vel in malum litore infixum, unde 
Thynnorrura gregem specularetur, quo viso, signum piscatoribus 
dabat, qui retibus totum gregem includebant. — Notm Bloomfieldii 
in Pers. This fixing a mast and climbing to the top of it 
must have been where the shore was low.” (We observe that 
..ffilian, whom the writer seems to have overlooked, describes 
this elevation as a stage fixed on a couple of lofty posts, 
with ledges to enable the huer to get up with ease.) “No 
need of this in Cornwall; but it shows what a useful person 
the huer was: they could not do without him. Dear sir, — 
I had quite forgotten that I possessed anything so much to 
your wishes as I trust the enclosed will prove, till I found 
it preserved in a volume of jEschylus — a refreshment to my 
memory. — C. V. Legrice. 
Potter translated 
“onward rush 
The Greeks, amid the ruins of the fleet. 
As through a shoal of fish caught in a net, 
Spreading destruction,” 
