Huge sturgeon pulled by oxen
77 CE • Italy
“This fish groweth so fat with ease and lying still, that otherwiles it weigheth a thousand pounds: and being taken with a great hooke fastened and linked to a chaine, cannot be drawne forth of the river but with certaine yokes of oxen.”
— Pliny The Elder
C. Plinius Secundus The Historie of the World, Book IX, translated by Philemon Holland (1601), 234-270.
Image: Van Haecken, Arnoldus. Still Life of Fish on Rocks with Large Sturgeon in Centre. Digital image. The British Museum, 1869,1211.92. 1734-1736.
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