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There is also the pelamys. Phrynichus mentions it in his Muses; and Aristotle, in the fifth book of his treatise on the Parts of Animals, says the pelamydes and the tunnies breed in the Black Sea, but not anywhere else. Sophocles also mentions them, in his Shepherds:— There, too, the foreign pelamys does winter, The stranger from the Hellespont. For she Doth come with many of her kind in summer To these cool waters of the Bosphorus.
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Then there is the perch. He also is mentioned by Diodes; and Speusippus, in the second book of his treatise on Things Resembling one another, says that the perch, the canna, and the phycis are all nearly alike. And Epicharmus says— The comaris, the sea-dog, and the cestra And variegated perch. And Numenius, in his treatise on the Art of Fishing, says— At one time perch, and at another strophades, Which keep around the rocks. The phycis too, Th' alphestes, and the red-flesh'd scorpion. There is also the phycis. This also is mentioned by Epichar- mus, in his Hebe's Wedding; and by Speusippus, in the second book of his treatise on Things Resembling one another; and by Numenius: all whose testimonies are at hand. Aristotle, in his book upon Animals and their Properties, says that the phycis is surrounded with prickles and spotted. But the perch is marked with lines, and with bars running in an oblique direction. And there is a proverb also, The perch follows the black-tail.
