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There is also the cordylus. Aristotle calls this fish an amphibious animal, and says that it dies if it is dried by the sun. But Numenius, in his book on the Art of Fishing, calls it the courylus:— All things are ready. First I strip the thighs Of courylus, or pirene, and treat too In the same way the marine grasshopper. He also speaks of the fish called the cordylis, in these lines— Mussels, sea-horses, or the sea-green cordylis.
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There is also a fish called cammorus. Epicharmus, in his Marriage of Hebe, says— Then after this there are boaces and Smarides, anchovies, also cammori. And Sophron, in his Female Farces, mentions them. But they are a species of squill, and this name was given them by the Romans.
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There is also a fish called the carcharias. Numenius of Heraclea, in his Art of Fishing, says— At times you may too a carcharias catch, At times a psamathis who loves the surf. And Sophron, in his Tunny-hunter, says, But if your stomach happens to have swallowed a carcharias. But Nicander the Colophonian, in his essay on Dialects, says that the carcharias is also called the lamias and the squill.
