Prose halieutics; or, Ancient and modern fish tattle / Fraser's magazine.
- Charles David Badham
- Date:
- 1854
Licence: Public Domain Mark
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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![His friends resemble tbe bright lesser stars, Himself is Phoebus. Hail, ever-mighty Neptune’s mightier son !# Hail, son of Yenus ! For other gods do at a distance keep, Or have no ears, Or no existence; and they heed not us; But you are present, Not made of wood or stone, a genuine god: We pray to thee. First of all give us peace, O dearest God, For you are Lord of peace.f Such words, says Athenseus, were sung at home and abroad by men whose sires had fought at Marathon, slain countless hosts of barbarians, and once put a man to death for offering adoration to a Persian despot; so gross was the flattery, that even the recipient himself could not stomach it, but declared his vexation and as- tonishment at what he heard and saw, together with his conviction that there was not one Athenian of free and manly spirit left. Ancient Festivities. Aet7rva fun evveire, Mofcra, 7ro\vrpo(f)a, kcu pd\a 7roXXa, l'A SevoKXrjs pfjrcop iv ’ASrjvais SeiWtcrei/ rjpds.—Matron, joar. Of beast, bird, or fish, and every daintiest thing, That feast, O Muse, in grateful accent sing, * rod Kparia-rov ttoa. nocretSawoy Qeov, ^atpe, k’ 'Acfrpobtrrjs. ’fA\Aoi pev r/ paKpav yap aTve^ovcnv 0eot, t] ovk t^ovaiv a>ra, fj ovk elcrlv, rj ov 7Tpoae^pvatv rjplv ovde eV ere Se TvapovS’ opcopev’ ov (-vAivov, ovbe A'lOivov, aAX’ aArjdivov, elxopeada 817 erof TTpoorov pev, elpr]vr]v tyoi^ctov, (f}iXraT€‘ Kvpios yap ei av. k. t. X. f C. H. Yonge, trans. of Athen.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24974456_0527.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
