[637] Pliny claims for the Acipenser that he “unus omnium squamis ad os versis contra aquam nando meat.” The reading of the last four words is however much disputed. C. Mayhoff prints _contra quam in nando meant_. Plutarch, _De Sol. Anim._, 28, of the _Elops_, “it always swims with the wind and tide, not minding the erection or opening of the scales, which do not lie towards the tail, as in other fish.” [638] Athen., VII. 44; and Pliny, IX. 27. [639] Ælian, VIII. 28. [640] Cf. Athenæus, VII. 139. [641] Cf., however, Alciphron, I. 7, where among presents from fishermen, it takes premier place. [642] Juv., IV. 37 ff. [643] With this meeting compare that summoned post-haste by Nero in the Revolution (which led to his death), when to anxious and breathless senators he imparted the important news that he had just effected an improvement of the hydraulic organ, by which the notes were made to sound louder and sweeter. His ἐξεύρηκα conflicts somewhat with the account in Suetonius (_Nero_, 41). The Emperor evidently had a bent and a liking for mechanical invention, for according to C. M. Cobern, _New Archæological Discoveries_, etc., 1917, in one of his palaces were elevators which ran from the ground to the top floor, and a circular dining-room which revolved with the sun. [644] The part played by fish in recovering episcopal keys and rings has been dwelt on elsewhere. Sad it is that in the case of St. Lupus the _rôle_ is performed not by his namesake fish, but by a barbel, in whose belly was found, just previous to the return of the bishop to his See of Sens the self-same ring which on being exiled by Clothaire II. he had cast into the moat. Let us, disregarding all geographical habitats, trust that Barbel was here an ichthyic inexactitude for _Lupus_. Cf. S. Baring Gould, _The Lives of the Saints_, Vol. X. 7, Edinburgh, 1914. [645] Pliny, IX. 28. [646] Cf. Macrobius, Sat., II. 12: “Lucilius ... eum ... quasi ligurritorem catillonem appellat, scilicet qui proxime ripas stercus insectaretur.” _À propos_ of ‘Catillo,’ there is a quaint remark in the _Gloss. Salom._, “Nomen piscis a catino dictus ob cuius suavitatem homines catinum corrodunt”—the fish was so delicious it made one fairly bite the dish! [647] IX. 28. [648] _Epist._, XI. 40. [649] _Hal._, 41 f. [650] _N. H._, IX., 88; Arist., _H. A._, IX. 3. [651] Dorion, _ap._ Athen., VII. 99. Dorion was the author of a treatise much used by Athenæus. [652] IX. 25; _N. H._, IX. 36. [653] IX. 25; _N. H._, IX. 36. [654] Athen., VII. 99. Cf. Oppian, I. 151. [655] _De Ling. Lat._, 5. [656] Pliny, XXXII. 38. [657] The Lamprey, Pride, and _Muræna_ are different fish. They are all engraved in Nash’s book, who lays down that the _Muræna_ is not the lamprey—as indeed a representation (from Herculaneum) of the former done with great exactness serves to establish. See T. D. Fosbroke, _Encyl. of Antiq._ (London, 1843), p. 1033, and p. 402, figure 3. [658] _Ap._ Athen., VII. 91.