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(depicted as a shell-fish, with its sail-like palmulæ spread out to the wind, but with the same sails flattened into plate-like arms for steering), clearly "a species of _Sepia_," wholly like Aphrodite herself, a ship-like shell-fish sailing over the surface of the water, the concha veneria.
The Evolution of the Dragon G. Elliot Smith
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