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

Note 2618 — BOOK IX. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF FISHES.

John Bostock translation

Persius alludes to this in Sat. ii. l. 66. “Hæc baccam conchæ rasisse;” “to file the pearl away from its shell.”

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