Book 7
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Pherecrates also uses the word in its diminutive form, in his Forgetful Man, where he says— Being with your κορακινίδια and μαινίδια. And Amphis says, in his Ialemus— Whoever eats a sea-born coracinus When he may have a grayling, is a fool. But the coracini of the Nile are very sweet and delicious in their flesh, as those who have tried them know; and they have got their name from continually moving their eyes (διὰ τὸ τὰς κόρας κινεῖν), and never ceasing. But the Alexandrians call them plataces, which is, more correctly speaking, the name of the whole genus.
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There is also a fish called the cyprinus, or carp. He also, as Aristotle tells us, is a carnivorous and gregarious fish; and he has his tongue, not in the lower part of the mouth, but in the upper part. But Dorion, mentioning him in his list among the lake and river fish, writes thus: A scaly fish, whom some people call the cyprinus.
