Note See n. 2, p. 181 — Chapter XI
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[417] The Torpedo was one of the food fishes of the ancients, and is represented with other fish on several of the Campanian-ware fish plates to be seen at the British Museum, e.g. Cat. Vases, vol. iv., p. 121, F. 268, which shows the small well in the centre of the plate used for fish sauce.