Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Scombraria

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Scombraria

Now Islote; an island on the southeastern coast of Spain off Carthago Nova (Carthagena). It got its name from the mackerel (scombri) caught near by, from which the Romans prepared a sort of fish sauce (garum) resembling caviare (Strabo, p. 159).

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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