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"But we are wind fairies; and yet the Father of the Winds is called Astraeus: that sounds something like your long word, does it not?" "It sounds more like Astrea, and that means a star." "Why, where did you learn so much?" "I saw it in a big book called a dictionary." "Another long word. Doesn't your head ache?" "Sometimes, not now. I have not any books now, except picture-books."
To desire you to extend this favour to all of them would, I fear, be too unreasonable a trespass upon your indulgence; which, itt proportion as I have amply experienced, I ought to be so much the more cautious in troubling. The persons for whom I make this request are C. Valerius Astraeus, C. Valerius Dionysius, and C. Valerius Aper.
The son of Eos, or Aurora, and the Titan Astraeus, he was of the same parentage as the other multitude of the starry host, to whom a similar origin was ascribed, and from whom in Greek mythology he was evidently believed to differ only in the superior order of his brightness.
Still it contains some information about tackle and methods, and some passages describing battles with big fish, in the right spirit of enthusiasm. It is there described how the Macedonians captured a certain spotted fish in the river Astraeus by means of a lure composed of coloured wool and feathers, which was presumably used in the manner now known as "dapping."
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