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The Boys' and Girls' Pliny

Note 148 — Chapter XV · OYSTER-BEDS, AND FISH-PRESERVES.

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“Xerxen togatum,” or “the Roman Xerxes,” in allusion to Xerxes cutting a canal through the Isthmus, which connected the Peninsula of Mount Athos with Chalcidice.

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