| Pliny the Elder, Natural History (English) (XML Header) [genre: prose] [word count] [lemma count] [Plin. Nat.]. | ||
| <<Plin. Nat. 9.32 | Plin. Nat. 9.33 (Latin) | >>Plin. Nat. 9.34 |
Some fishes have numerous gills, others again single [Note] ones, others double; it is by means of these that they discharge the water that has entered the mouth. A sign of old age [Note] is the hardness of the scales, which are not alike in all. There are two lakes [Note] of Italy at the foot of the Alps, called Larius and Verbanus, in which there are to be seen every year, at the rising of the Vergiliæ, [Note] fish remarkable for the number of their scales, and the exceeding sharpness [Note] of them, strongly resembling hob-nails [Note] in appearance; these fish, however, are only to be seen during that month, [Note] and no longer.
| Pliny the Elder, Natural History (English) (XML Header) [genre: prose] [word count] [lemma count] [Plin. Nat.]. | ||
| <<Plin. Nat. 9.32 | Plin. Nat. 9.33 (Latin) | >>Plin. Nat. 9.34 |
