Fishing from the Earliest Times

by William Radcliffe

[838] The Mormyri, which number some 100 species, are peculiar to Africa.

[839] De Iside et Osiride, 18.

[840] Plut., 8.

[841] N. H., X. 46.

[842] The Mormyri, to which the Oxyrhynchus belongs, figure on the walls, and in bronzes, O. kannum and O. caschive being most frequent; but the Bana (Petrociphalus bane) and Grathonemus aprinoides also occur. The best delineations are found in the tombs of Ti and of Gizeh.—G. A. Boulenger, Fishes of the Nile, London, 1907.

[843] Plut., Ibid., ch. 72.

[844] The banishment is disputed by Franke and others. Cf., however, Sat., XV. 45. “Aegyptus, sed luxuria, quantum ipse notavi.”

[845] From Gifford’s Translation.

[846] Cf. Athenæus, VII. 55, for the jests of Antiphanes, etc.

[847] N. H., X. 19.