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unfortunate wretch was forthwith thrown into the pond as food for the fish. 
On one occasion, Augustus was supping with him, when a slave had the 
misfortune to break a crystal goblet, and his master immediately ordered 
him to be thrown to the fishes. The slave fell at the feet of Augustus, 
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praying for mercy; the emperor interceded with his master on his behalf, 
but when he could not prevail upon Pollio to pardon him, he dismissed the 
slave of his own accord, and commanded all Pollio’s goblets to be broken 
and the fish-pond to be filledup.” This is the version given by Dr. William 
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COMMON MORAY OF FLORIDA; SPOTTED MORAY, 
Smith in his “ Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology ”’ 
(ITI., p. 440), but, like almost all others, he has translated the Greek word 
Muraina (Muraena) by Lamprey instead of Moray, and in the latest great 
Greek Dictionary pvpawa is also defined as a “sea-eel, lamprey.” As a 
matter of fact,'there is greater morphological difference between a Murena 
and a Lamprey than there is between the former and man, although there 
