LIBER IX · CAPUT 22
EELS
Latine · Mayhoff 1906
lacus est Italiae Benacus in Veronensi agro Mincium amnem tramittens, ad cuius emersus annuo tempore, Octobri fere mense, autumnali sidere, ut palam est, hiemato lacu, fluctibus glomeratae volvuntur in tantum mirabili multitudine, ut in excipulis eius fluminis ob hoc ipsum fabricatis singulorum milium reperiantur globi.
English · Bostock & Riley 1855–57
There is a lake called Benacus, in the territory of Verona, in Italy, through which the river Mincius flows. At the part of it whence this river issues, once a year, and mostly in the month of October, the lake is troubled, evidently by the constellations of autumn, and the eels are heaped together by the waves, and rolled on by them in such astonishing multitudes, that single masses of them, containing more than a thousand in number, are often taken in the chambers which are formed in the bed of the river for that purpose.