| Pliny the Elder, Natural History (English) (XML Header) [genre: prose] [word count] [lemma count] [Plin. Nat.]. | ||
| <<Plin. Nat. 9.17 | Plin. Nat. 9.18 (Latin) | >>Plin. Nat. 9.19 |
The male tunny has no ventral fin; [Note] these fish enter the Euxine in large bodies from the main [Note] sea, in the spring, and will spawn nowhere else. The young ones, which in autumn accompany the females to the open sea, are known as "cordyla." [Note] In the spring they are called "pelamides," [Note] from πηλὸς, the Greek for "mud," and after they are a year old, "thynni." When this fish is cut up into pieces, the neck, the belly, and the throat, [Note] are the most esteemed parts; but they must be eaten only when they are quite fresh, and even then they cause severe fits of flatulence; the other parts; with the flesh entire, are preserved in salt. Those pieces, which bear a resemblance to an oaken board, have thence received the name of "melandrya." [Note] The least esteemed among these parts are those which are the nearest to the tail, because they have no fat upon them; while those parts are considered the most delicate, which lie nearest the neck; [Note] in other fishes,
however, the parts about the tail have the most nutriment [Note] in them. The pelamides are cut up into small sections, known as "apolecti;" [Note] and these again are divided into cubical pieces, which are thence called "cybia." [Note]
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| <<Plin. Nat. 9.17 | Plin. Nat. 9.18 (Latin) | >>Plin. Nat. 9.19 |
