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Although the Romans never favored purely speculative sciences, they were interested in fishes; but it was from an economic standpoint, and also to gratify a love of pleasure that, despite its excesses, could not exhaust the world’s riches, amassed by the world’s oppressors.Varro and Columella wrote on the first of these two aims. One sees from these authors that at the time of Cicero and Augustus, freshwater fishponds were already common and that the rich built fishponds along the seashore and...
