Book 13
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And Myrtilus said to him:—Since you interrupted us when we were making out a catalogue of women, not like the lists of Sosicrates the Phanagorite, or like the catalogue of women of Nilænetus the Samian or Abderitan (whichever was really his native country), I, digressing a little, will turn to your question, my old Phœnix. Learn, then, that Alexis, in his Pyraunus, has said τὸν τίγριν, using the word in the mas- culine gender; and these are his words: Come, open quick the door; I have been here, Though all unseen, walking some time,—a statue, A millstone, and a seahorse, and a wall, The tiger (ὁ τίγρις) of Seleucus. And I might quote other evidences of the fact, but I postpone them for the present, while I finish my catalogue, as far as it comprehends the beautiful women.
