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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

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