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

Note 2622 — BOOK IX. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF FISHES.

John Bostock translation

Isidorus of Charax, in Athenæus, B. iii., tells a similar story; but modifies it by saying that the fish sometimes cuts off the fingers of the divers, and not the hands.

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