Class IV. D O R E E 



221 



Body very deep, and comprefTed fideways. 



Very long filaments iffuingfrom the firft dorfal fin. DOREE, 



Seven branchioftegous rays. 



Xa^Jthq. Athen. lib.VU. 328. Zeus ventre acnleato, cauda 100. Dores, 



Oppian Halieut. I. 133. in extremo circinato. Arted. 



Faber? Ovid Halieut. no. fynon. 78. 



Zeus idem Faber Gadibus. Zeus Faber. Z. cauda rotun- 



Plin. lib. IX. c. 18. data, lateribus mediis ocello 



La Doree. Belon, 146.^ fufco, pinnis analibus dua- 



Faber five Gallus marinus. bus. Lin. fyfi. 454. Gro- 



Rondel. 328. Gejher pifc. 369. no<v. Zoopb. No. 311. 



A Doree. Wil. Icth. 294. Zeus fpinofus. Muf. Fred. 



Raii fyn. pifc. 99. Ad. 67. tab. XXXI. 



SUPERSTITION hath made the Doree rival 

 to the Hadock, for the honor of having been 

 the fifh out of whofe mouth St. Peter took the tri- 

 bute-money, leaving on its fides thofe incontefti- 

 ble proofs of the identity of the fifh, the marks of 

 his finger and thumb. 



It is rather difficult at this time to determine on 

 which part to decide the diipute^ for the Doree 

 like wife afTerts an origin of its fpots of a fi milar 

 nature, but of a much earlier date than the for- 

 mer. St. Chriftopher *, in wading through an arm 



of 



* Relet/, Rondel, alfo Aldrovand de pifc. 40. St. Chrijlophcr 

 mm of a C'ljTal ffoture, as 16 erident from his image in the 



church 



