an ancient boru on angling the greatest work of antiquity on angling is said to bo be the Halis utica of a greek poet who flourished in in the time of severus A D I 1 IN from which we learn that many artifices in fishing shing fis thought to be modern were imola mown to the ancients we also leani freir athenous Ath eneus that several other writers lid had written trea treatises aises or poems on fis fasli hi ug 9 some borne centuries cen times before the christian era L a american angler