Kitap 3
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And after the viands which have been mentioned there were then brought unto us separately some large dishes of oysters, and other shell-fish, nearly all of which have been thought by Epicharmus worthy of being celebrated in his play of the Marriage of Hebe, in these words:— Come, now, bring all kinds of shell-fish; Lepades, aspedi, crabyzi, strabeli, cecibali, Tethunachia, balani, porphyryæ, and oysters with closed shells, Which are very difficult to open, but very easy to eat; And mussels, and anaritæ, and ceryces, and sciphydria, Which are very sweet to eat, but very prickly to touch; And also the oblong solens. And bring too the black Cockle, which keeps the cockle-hunter on the stretch. Then too there are other cockles, and sand-eels, And periwinkles, unproductive fish, Which men entitle banishers of men, But which we gods call white and beautiful.
