In amatores meretricum.

Those who give their affection to whores

Villosae indutus piscator tegmina caprae,
Addidit ut capiti cornua bina suo,
Fallit amatorem stans summo in littore Sargum[1],
In laqueos simi quem gregis ardor agit.
Capra refert scortum, similis fit Sargus amanti,
Qui miser obscoeno captus amore perit.

When a fisherman has dressed himself in a shaggy she-goat skin and placed twin horns on his head, he stands at the edge of the beach, and tricks the passionate sargus, whom desire for the snub-nosed herd drives into the trap. - The she-goat represents the whore, the sargue is like the lover, who perishes, wretched fellow, in the toils of unwholesome love.

Sargus piscis Capras vehementissime amat,
cumque earum proximè littus pascentium unius
aut alterius umbra in mari apparuerit proti-
nus gaudio exiliens summo studio adnatat,
saltuque Capras attingere affectat, & gestiens
ad eas accedere studet, ob illam denique amo-
ris insaniam, (eo quòd tantopere desiderat)
perditur. Piscator nanque Caprinam pellem
extractam cum cornibus induens, insidias
parat. Sole à tergo relicto, atque farina Capri-
no iure madefacta in mari dispergit, mox Sar
gus Caprae odorem percipiens, accedit, pel-
lisque assimulatae Caprae conspectu permulce-
tur & capitur. Haec omnia Aelianus lib. 11.
cap. 19. de natura animalium. Sic amatores
(quos Sargus significat) ob furentem
& insanam libidinem in mere-
trices (quas Capra refert) in-
escati, decepti, ac denique
capti. Cupiditatis
suae poenas
dant,
misereque pereunt.