Note 212 — Chapter IV · THE DOLPHIN—HERODOTUS—THE ICHTHYOPHAGI—THE TUNNY
Reading edition
Brit. Mus. Cat., pl. XXI. 7. B. V. Head, Historia Numorum, 620 f. (ed. 2, Oxford, 1911). In Plutarch’s (de Sol. Anim., 36) the lad was thrown from the fish’s back by a terrible shower of hail and was drowned.