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The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 2 (of 6)

Note 2304 — BOOK IX. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF FISHES.

John Bostock translation

By us known as the “angel-fish,” the “Squalus squatina” of Linnæus, a kind of shark. From this property of its skin, it was called by the Greeks ῥίνη the “file.” See B. xxxii. c. 53.

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