Latin Texts & Translations

There is this also in the nature of fish, that some are more highly esteemed in one place, and some in another; such, for instance, as the coracinus ^[Note] in Egypt, the zeus, ^[Note] also called the faber, ^[Note] at Gades, the salpa, ^[Note] in the vicinity of Ebusus, ^[Note] which is considered elsewhere an unclean fish, and can nowhere ^[Note] be thoroughly cooked, wherever found, without being first beaten with a stick: in Aquitania, again, the river salmon ^[Note] is preferred to all the fish that swim in the sea.