Prose halieutics; or, Ancient and modern fish tattle / Fraser's magazine.

  • Charles David Badham
Date:
1854
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Credit: Prose halieutics; or, Ancient and modern fish tattle / Fraser's magazine. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    sents us, in the f Eunuchus/ with one of these gentlemen, who (spite of his pnre Latinity) is a thorough Greek. Parasite Gnatho, having explained to a ruined spendthrift (a quondam acquaintance, as he informs the house), and enlightened both him and it touching the resources of a rascality yet untried by that unfortunate, ends his confi- dential communication to the public somewhat as follows : —fWhile thus chatting together, we enter the market, when immediately a whole host of radiant faces comes forward to greet me,—confectioners, cooks, butchers, poulterers, sausage-sellers, and dealers in fish,—men whom I have it in my power, and do my best, as they know, to serve;—nothing could exceed the heartiness of these good people, who all vied with each other in pay- ing us honour and pressing me to sup with them. My poor starveling friend, who had kept close, witnessing this, and seeing what an easy life was mine, begged hard that I would impart to him instructions in the art: I acceded with my usual kindness to his request, and, re- membering the custom which prevails with philosophers of giving their names to disciples, made him a present of mine, and bade him henceforth call and consider him- self a Gnathonist As we went lately to Greece for the character of a cook, we now, and for the same reason, return thither to make further inquiries about these parasites. The first thing wre remark about the tribe is the number of different names by which it was designated: besides the more generic title of koXclZ*^) with the numerous com- pounds (2) made from it, the several members of this dis- * (J) K6\a£, from koWuctOcil, to stick to, says Androeides; or from k6\ov, alimentnm, say others: neither of these on dits seems worthy of credit. (2) y^copoKoXa^, paXaKoXa^, diovvaioicoXag. (3) TrapayKOViarrr](4) 6rjp. (5) (TxnpciTo6r]Kr]s. (6) To (rneppa rcov eXXoyipuov koX6.kcov. (^) To yap KoXaKeveiv vvv apecrueiv ovop
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