place
Ostia
also: Ostia
The harbor town at the mouth of the Tiber; one of the places a gourmet pretends to distinguish his fish by.
Reading notes
- The Satires §2.2 the Tuscan river
The 'Tuscan river' is the Tiber, which rises in Etruria; the gourmet pretends to tell where his fish was caught — between the city bridges or down at Ostia, the river-mouth.