Note 543 — Chapter XV · FISH IN SACRIFICES—PICKLED FISH—VIVARIA OF OYSTERS, ETC.—ARCHIMEDES
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De Re Rustica, VIII. 16. Cf. also Juvenal, V. 94 ff.—
“quando omne peractum est Et iam defecit nostrum mare, dum gula sævit, Retibus assiduis penitus scrutante macello Proxima, nec patimur Tyrrhenum crescere piscem,”
and Seneca, Ep., 89, 22—
“quorum profunda et insatiabilis gula hinc maria scrutatur, hinc terras.”