THE MULLET, 
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fauftand as an inftrument of a fhocking punifament*. 
Juvenal and Horace both allude to it in mentioning the 
various modes of revenge which rage di&ated to the 
injured fpoufe f. 
Necat htc ferro, fecat ille cruent's 
Verberibus; quofdam machos et mugilis intrat. 
* Vide Caufahon, in Athen. 
•f Juven. .Sat. x. 316. Hor. Sat. ii. lib. i- 13s. 
