Note 581 — Chapter XVII
Reading edition
Cf. Oppian, IV. 375 ff. I. Walton, citing the Sargus as an example of “the lustful fish,” quotes Dubartas, “because none can express it better than he does,” whose last two lines, as examples of this perfect expression, I cannot resist,
“Goes courting She-Goats on the grassie shore Horning their husbands, that had horns before.”