Note 345 — Chapter VIII · THE TWO PLINYS—MARTIAL—WAS THE ROD JOINTED?
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The best reeds for fowling purposes (harundo aucupatoria) came from Panormus, those for fishing (harundo piscatoria) from Abaris in Lower Egypt. Pliny, XVI. 66. For a legal decision as to the selling, etc., of reeds, see Digesta Justiniani, VII. 1, 9, 5.