@PugJesusM to Rough Roman MemesEnglish • 3 months agoThe earliest description of a Killer Whale is of a Roman being scared shitless of themimagemessage-square5arrow-up177arrow-down12
arrow-up175arrow-down1imageThe earliest description of a Killer Whale is of a Roman being scared shitless of them@PugJesusM to Rough Roman MemesEnglish • 3 months agomessage-square5
minus-square@jordanlundlinkEnglish5•3 months ago“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. Nat. 9.70&getid=1
minus-squaresnooggumslinkEnglish9•3 months ago He called sharks “noxious monsters” LOL. Possibly due to the strong smell of ammonia that their corpses give off.
“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. Nat. 9.70&getid=1
Possibly due to the strong smell of ammonia that their corpses give off.