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Sargus vulgaris

In Attica, was early developed a characteristic and closely accurate type of representation of marine forms, and this attained a wider vogue in Southern Italy in the fourth century. From the latter period a number of dishes and vases have come down to us bearing a large variety of fish forms, portrayed with an exactness that is interesting in view of the attention to marine creatures in the surviving literature of Aristotelian origin

Author
Greek Biology and Greek Medicine
Charles Joseph Singer
Published 1922
Available from gutenberg.org
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