Note 637 — Chapter XVIII · THE NINE FISH MOST HIGHLY PRIZED

Pliny claims for the Acipenser that he “unus omnium squamis ad os versis contra aquam nando meat.” The reading of the last four words is however much disputed. C. Mayhoff prints contra quam in nando meant. Plutarch, De Sol. Anim., 28, of the Elops, “it always swims with the wind and tide, not minding the erection or opening of the scales, which do not lie towards the tail, as in other fish.”