[484] Thought by some to be a kind of mackerel, by others to be a tunny. Rondelet says, B. viii. c. 8, that it is a fish still called coguiol by the people of Marseilles.
[485] In the Hellespont.
[486] Or Sexis, according to Pintianus.
[487] Or “sea-lizards.”
[488] See B. ix. c. 18. He surely does not intend to include this among his “one hundred and seventy-six different kinds of aquatic animals”!
[489] Or young tunny. See B. ix. c. 18.
[490] See B. ix. c. 18.
[491] Rondelet says, B. v. c. 4, that it is a fish still known (in his time) as cantheno, by the people of Narbonne. Ovid, in his Halieuticon, l. 103, speaks of the unpleasant flavour of its juices.
[492] See Chapter [24] of the present Book.
[493] Of course, as Hardouin says, he does not include the shell-fishes in this assertion. The fish with this uncomplimentary name has not been identified.