Book 7
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Since then there are a great many different kinds of fish which we eat at different seasons, my most admirable Timocrates, (for, as Sophocles says— A chorus too of voiceless fish rush'd on, Making a noise with their quick moving tails. The tails not fawning on their mistress, but beating against the dish. And as Achæus says in his Fates— There was a mighty mass of the sea-born herd— A spectacle which fill'd the wat'ry waste, Breaking the silence with their rapid tails;) I will now recapitulate to you what the Deipnosophists said about each: for each of them brought to the discussion of the subject some contribution of quotation from books; though I will not mention the names of all who took part in the conversation, they were so numerous.
