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By the writers of antiquity it was spoken of under its Aristotelian name, and in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturæ, at the very inception of binomial nomenclative, Linnaeus called it Xiphias gladius.

From Tales of Fishes by Grey, Zane

We have specimens of his fondness for this nomenclative punning subscribed to his portrait: —   "Floret adhue, et adhue florebit: floreat ultra     Florius hae specie floridus,—optat amans."

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 13, November, 1858 by Various

Oriental ethnography, which, like most Eastern sciences, luxuriates in nomenclative distinction, recognises a fourth race under the name of Arab al-Mustajamah.

From Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 2 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir