CHAP. 78. (53.)—THE LONGEST LIVES KNOWN AMONGST FISHES.
We have lately heard of a remarkable instance of length of
life in fish. Pausilypum [Note] is the name of a villa in Campania,
not far from Neapolis; here, as we learn from the works of
M. Annsaus Seneca, a fish is known to have died sixty years
after it had been placed in the preserves of Cæsar [Note] by Vedius
Pollio; while others of the same kind, and its equals in age,
were living at the time that he wrote. This mention of fish-preserves reminds me that I ought to mention a few more particulars connected with this subject, before we leave the aquatic
animals.
