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

Note 2567 — BOOK IX. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF FISHES.

John Bostock translation

Hardouin says, that these are the same that the Venetians were in the habit of calling “cancro poro,” the last word being a corruption, as he thinks, of pagurus. Aristotle says, loc. cit., that they were crabs of middling size.

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