Obs. Ichthyol. [ad. L. bōx, pl. bōces, the name of a fish in Pliny (N.H., XXXII. xi.); cf. Fr. bocque a ‘great-eyed Cackerell fish’ (Cotgr.).] An acanthopterygian fish (Box or Boöps vulgaris), also called Bogue (family Sparidæ), found in the Mediterranean, and rarely on the British coast.
1617. Rider, Dict., Boces, small fishes so called, Leucomænides.
1753. Chambers, Cycl. Supp., Boce, the name given by Aristotle, and many other of the antient Greek writers to the fish commonly called by authors boops.
