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

Note 2518 — BOOK IX. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF FISHES.

John Bostock translation

“Quibus venantur.” Hardouin suggests that the proper reading would be “quibus natant”—“by means of which they swim;” for Aristotle says, in the corresponding passage, “with the fins that surround the body they swim.”

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