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1 See B. ix. c. 74. The fry of larger fish, Cuvier says.
2 Ajasson considers this to be an absurd derivation; and thinks it much more probable, that the name is from ἀ privative, and φύω, "to beget;" it being a not uncommon notion that these small fish were pro- duced spontaneously from mud and slime.
3 The present Frejus, in the south of France.
4 "Wolf." Not the fish of that name, Hardouin says, mentioned in B. ix. c. 28.
5 The festivals of Ceres. The devotees, though obliged to abstain from meat, were allowed the use of this garuim, it would appear.
6 Gesner proposes to read "non carêntibus," "with scales"—fishes without scales being forbidden to the Jews by the Levitical Law. See Lev. c. xi. ver. 10. It is, most probably, Pliny's own mistake.
7 See B. xxvii. c. 2.
8 At the end of c. 42.
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