Note 291 — Chapter VI · CHARACTERISTICS OF FISHERMEN IN GREECE AND ROME—POVERTY “THE BADGE OF ALL OUR TRIBE”—DEITIES OF FISHING
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To Janus, however, the credit of being the first to teach the art of Fishing to the Latins is assigned by Alexander Sardus, De Rerum Inventoribus, II. 16. This in common with the belief that Janus invented boats is probably a mistaken inference from the fact that the early as libralis had a head of Janus on one side and the prow of a ship on the other (Roscher, Lex. Myth., II. p. 23).