Forbidden fish
“surmullet, blacktail, mullet, eel”
animal · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
blacktail · eel · fish without fins or scales · mullet · surmullet · the fishes
in the texts
Stromata
Fatty fish lacking fins and scales, forbidden by the law as part of training in mastery of desire.
Likewise it forbade partaking of the fishes, restraining our desires of those that have neither fins nor scales;
De morbo sacro
Fish species the healers forbid patients from eating.
Of sea substances, the surmullet, the blacktail, the mullet, and the eel;