Note 72 — PART I
Reading edition
His pleasant description of “tickling” and his “viro Britanno” must be my excuse for introducing a writer in Latin so late after my limit of 500 a.d. as Parthenius, better known as Giannettasi, the author of Halieutica, published at Naples in 1689:
“Paulatim digitis piscator molliter alvum Defricat, et sensim palpando repit in ipsas Cæruleas branchas, subituque apprendit: et illa Blanditiis decepta viro fit præda Britanno.”