Note 339 — Chapter VIII · THE TWO PLINYS—MARTIAL—WAS THE ROD JOINTED?
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Ep., X. 37, 7 and 8,
“Ad sua captivum quam saxa remittere mullum, Visus erit libris qui minor esse tribus.”
This is an attempt to show how large and plentiful the mullets were in Spain, and is just hospitable swagger, for Pliny, N. H., IX. 30, states that a mullet rarely exceeded two pounds.