Note 508 — Chapter XV · FISH IN SACRIFICES—PICKLED FISH—VIVARIA OF OYSTERS, ETC.—ARCHIMEDES
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Athen., VII. 50, and Paulus Rhode, Thynnorum Captura (Lipsiæ, 1890), p. 71. Most of the major deities—e.g. Diana, Apollo, Mercury, Juno, Neptune, Ceres, and Venus—claimed a particular sacrificiable fish or fishes. Sometimes fishes were offered to two or more gods, e.g. the mullet to Ceres and Proserpine. Cf. J. G. Stuck, Sacrorum et sacrificiorum gentil. descriptio, ii. p. 72.