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[–] jordanlund 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

"An enormous mass of flesh armed with teeth..."

God help them if they ever saw orcas taking out a great white shark...

He called sharks "noxious monsters" LOL.

https://anastrophe.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/perseus/citequery3.pl?dbname=LatinAugust21&query=Plin.%20Nat.%209.70&getid=1

[–] spankmonkey 8 points 4 days ago

He called sharks “noxious monsters” LOL.

Possibly due to the strong smell of ammonia that their corpses give off.