Nero's Fish Pond Found.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 15 May 1913, Page 4

Nero's Fish Pond Found.

Professor ISoni, who is supervising the excavations on the Palatine Hill, lias made an important archaeological discovery. Beneath tho Basilica of the Flavian palace he found two narrow stairways, leading to a "piscina,'! a water reservoir consisting of five large compartments. It is still intact, covered mid well preserved by watertight cement. The reservoir dates from the time of Nero, when it was used as a pond for sea fish, with the object of breeding exotic lish for the Emperor's table. That the artificial rearing and hatching of fish was practised in ancient Koine is attested by Pliny, who refers to a fish called scarns, found between Uhodes and Crete, but bred artificially.