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Crassus' Slippery Eel

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2009

Allen M. Ward
Allen M. Ward
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University of Connecticut
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The Classical Review , Volume 24 , Issue 2 , October 1974 , pp. 185 - 186
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1974

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References

2 Pliny the Elder tells a similar story of the orator Hortensius weeping at the death of a pet eel (N.H. ix. 172).

3 Helmbold, W. C., Plutarch's Moralia vol. 12 (Cambridge, Mass, and London, 1957), 418 note bGoogle Scholar, and Scholfield, A. F., Aelian On the Characteristics of Animals, vol. ii (Cambridge, Mass, and London, 1959), 183 note b.Google Scholar

4 Helmbold, ibid. 419 note c.

5 Scholfield, op. cit. 183 note c.

6 Cf. F. Münzer R.E. v. I (1903), 1326. 49–1327. 2, s.v. Domitius (21); M. Krüger, M. Antonii et L. Licinii Crassi Oral. Roman. Fragm. (Breslau, 1909), 47; N. Häpke R.E. xiii. I (1926), 261. 46–60, s.v. Licinius (55).