Note 2821 — BOOK IX. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF FISHES. (continued 2)
John Bostock translation
“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. See B. iv. c. 17, and the Note, vol. i. p. 300.