Note 2822 — BOOK IX. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF FISHES. (continued 2)
John Bostock translation
Probably the same person as the C. Hirrius Posthumius, who is mentioned as a voluptuary by Cicero, De Fin. B. ii. c. 22, § 70. Varro speaks of him, as expending the rent of his houses, amounting to twelve millions of sesterces, in bait for his murenæ.