CHAP. XXX. Of the Lampron.
THE Lampron, called in Latine Muraena, is a sea fish something in shape * 1.1 resembling a Lamprey, but shee is bigger and thicker, and hath a lar∣ger mouth, with teeth long, sharpe and bending inwards, she is of a dus∣kie colour, distinguished with whitish spots, and of some two cubits length; the Ancients had them in great esteem, because they yeeld good nourishment, and may be kept long alive, in pooles or ponds, and so taken as the owners please to serve their table, as it is sufficiently knowne by the historie of the Roman Crassus. Shee by her biting induceth the same symptomes as the viper, and it may bee helped by the same meanes. Verily the Lampron hath such familiarity with * 1.2 the Viper, that leaving her naturall element, the sea, she leapeth a shoare, and seeketh out the Viper in her den to joyne with her in copulation, as it is written by AEli∣an and Nicander.