Latin Texts & Translations

In reference to that repugnance which exists between certain things, known to the Greeks as "antipathia," there is nothing more venomous ^[Note] than the pastinaca, a sea-fish which kills trees even with its sting, as already ^[Note] stated. And yet, poisonous as it is, the galeos ^[Note] pursues it; a fish which,

though it attacks other marine animals as well, manifests an enmity to the pastinaca in particular, just as on dry land the weasel does to serpents; with such avidity does it go in pursuit of what is poisonous even! Persons stung by the pastinaca find a remedy in the flesh of the galeos, as also in that of the sur-mullet and the vegetable production known as laser. ^[Note]