Since another version brackets “Reformation, hops, bays, and beer,” the year intended is obviously 1532.
A Pike, or rather the head of a fish so-called, served at supper is said to have caused the end of Theodoric the Goth. In it he imagined he saw the face and head of Symmachus, whom he had just put to death; straightway he became so terror-stricken that within three days he had joined his victim.
THE NAKED FISHERMAN
OF THE VATICAN.
CHAPTER XIV
INFATUATION FOR FISH—EXTRAVAGANT PRICES—COSTLY ENTERTAINMENTS—VITELLIUS—CLEOPATRA —APICIUS—COOKS—SAUCES
Leaving now the Lore of fishing among the Greeks and Romans, let us turn, before examining the nature and number of their Lures, to their estimation of Fish as a food.