Book 7
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There is also the channa. Epicharmus, in his Hebe's Wedding, says— The channa, with large mouth, and then the cod, With deep and spacious belly. Numenius, in his Art of Fishing, says— The channas and the eel, and pitinus, Who only roams by night. Dorion also mentions him in his treatise on Fishes. But Aristotle, in his book on Animals, calls the channa a fish variegated with red and black; and he calls it also ποικιλόγραμμος, because it is marked with black lines.
135
There is the chromis; this also is spoken of by Epicharmus, who says— There is the sword-fish and the chromias, Who, in the spring, as Ananius says, Is of all fish the daintiest. And Numenius, in his Art of Fishing, says— The hyces, or the beautiful callicthys, Or else the chromis, and sometimes the orphus. And Archestratus says— You may catch noble chromises in Pella, And they are fat when it is midsummer; And in Ambracia likewise they abound.
