Pliny, the Elder
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Hist 9.17.p3676
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Perseus Lat2
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Mugilum natura ridetur in metu capite abscondito totos se occultari credentium. isdem tam incauta
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sal
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citas
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, ut in
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Phoenice
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et in
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Narbonensi provincia coitus
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tempore e
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vivariis marem linea longinqua per os ad branc
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ias
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religata
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emissum in mare eademque linea retractum feminae sequantur ad litus rursusque
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feminam mares
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partus tempore.
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Apud antiquos piscium nobilissimus habitus acipenser , unus omnium squamis ad os versis contra quam in nando
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meant, nullo nunc in honore est, quod
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e
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quidem
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miror
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, cum sit rarus
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inventu. quidam eum elopem vocant.
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Postea praecipuam auctoritatem fuisse lupo et asellis Nepos Cornelius et Laberius poeta
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mimorum tradidere. luporum laudatissimi qui appellantur lanati a candore mollitiaque carnis. asellorum duo genera, call
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ri
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ae
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minores et bacchi
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, qui non nisi in alto capiuntur, ideo praelati prioribus. at in lupis in amne capti praeferuntur.
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Nunc principatus scaro datur, qui solus piscium dicitur ruminare herbisque vesci atque
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non aliis piscibus,
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Carpathio maxime mari frequens. promunturium Troadis
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Lectum numquam sponte transit
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. inde advectos Tiberio Claudio principe Optatus e libert
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s
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ius
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praefectus classis inter Ostiensem et Campaniae oram sparsos disseminavit, quinquennio fere cura
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adhibita, ut capti redderentur mari.
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postea frequentes inveniuntur Italiae litore
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, non antea ibi capti, admovetque
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sibi gula sapores piscibus satis et novum incolam mari dedit, ne quis peregrinas aves Romae parere miretur. proxima est mensa
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ecori
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dumtaxat mustelarum, quas, mirum dictu, inter Alpis quoque lacus Raetiae Brigantinus aemulas marinis
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generat.
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Ex reliqua nobilitate et gratia maxima est et copia mullis
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, sicut magnitude modica, binasque libras ponderis raro admodum exuperant nec in vivariis piscinisque crescunt . septentrionalis
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tantum hos et proxima occidentis parte gignit
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oceanus. cetero
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genera eorum plura; nam et
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alga vescuntur et ostreis et limo et aliorum piscium carne, et
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barba gemina insigniuntur inferiori labro. lutarium
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ex iis vilissimi generis appellant;
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hunc semper comitatur sargus nomine alius piscis et caenum fodiente eo excitatum devorat pabulum. nec litorar
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is
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gratia. laudatissimi conch
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lium sapiunt. nomen iis Fenestella a colore mulleorum
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calciamentorum datum putat
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. pariunt ter annis
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; certe totiens
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fetura apparet.
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mullum expirantem versicolori quadam et numerosa varietate spectari proceres gulae narrant, rubentium squamarum multiplici mutatione pallescentem, utique
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si vitro
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spectetur inclusus. M
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. Apicius, ad omne luxus
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ingenium
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us
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, in sociorum garo
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— nam ea quoque res cognomen invenit— necari
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eos praecellens
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putavit atque e
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iecore eorum allecem
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excogitare.
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Provocavit — id enim est facilius dixisse quam quis vicerit — Asinius Celer e consularibus hoc pisce prodig
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o
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s
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omnes
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Gaio
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principe unum mercatus
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HS
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VIII
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mullum
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. quae
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reputatio
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aufert traversum animum ad contemplationem eorum, qui in conquestione luxus coquos
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emi singulos pluris
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quam equos quiritabant
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. at nunc
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coci trium horum
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pretiis parantur et coquorum
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pisces, nullusque prope iam mortalis
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aestimatur
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pluris quam qui peritissime
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censum domini mergit.
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