Of sea substances, the surmullet, the blacktail, the mullet, and the eel; for these are the fishes most to be guarded against. From Wordnik.com. [On The Sacred Disease] Reference
It was composed of turtle soup made of the most delicate hawks bills, of a surmullet served with puff paste (the liver of which, prepared by itself, was most delicious), and fillets of the emperor-holocanthus, the savour of which seemed to me superior even to salmon. From Wordnik.com. [Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea] Reference
It was composed of turtle soup made of the most delicate hawks bills, of a surmullet served with puff paste. From Wordnik.com. [Vingt mille lieues sous les mers. English] Reference
Seius gave for the nightingale the command of a quantity of labour and subsistence equal to what 66l. 13s. 4d. would purchase in the present simes, and Asinius Celer gave for the surmullet the command of a quantity equal to what 88l. 17s. 9d. 1/3 would purchase. From Wordnik.com. [XI. Book I. Of the Rent of Land] Reference
When we read in Pliny, therefore, that Seius bought a white nightingale, as a present for the empress Agrippina, at the price of six thousand sestertii, equal to about fifty pounds of our present money; and that Asinius Celer purchased a surmullet at the price of eight thousand sestertii, equal to about sixty-six pounds thirteen shillings and fourpence of our present money; the extravagance of those prices, how much soever it may surprise us, is apt, notwithstanding, to appear to us about one-third less than it really was. From Wordnik.com. [XI. Book I. Of the Rent of Land] Reference
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