Note (41) — BOOK II. (continued 2)
James Greive translation
41. Lacertus et aurata.) I have chosen rather to retain the Latin appellations of these fish, and several more, than to follow the conjectures of the moderns, where they are not agreed. Aurata is taken for the gilt-head, corvus, a cabot, oculata, eye-fish, resembling a lizard, plani, flat fish, or the turbot kind, lupus some will have the pike, others sturgeon. Mullus, barbett, or mullet.—See Pliny who describes them.