Antiq. [Late L.= Gr. λάτος.] A large fish inhabiting the Nile and other regions.
1598. Epulario, F iiij b. To dresse a Latus or shadow fish.
1706. Phillips (ed. Kersey), Latus,… a huge Fish peculiar to the River Nile, which is often of Two Hundred Pounds Weight.
1753. Chambers, Cycl. Supp., Latus,… the name of a fish of the coracinus, or umbra kind.
1857. Birch, Anc. Pottery (1858), I. 90. Among fishes, the latus,… and the oxyrhyncus.
