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There is also the saurus, or lizard. Alexis mentions this fish, in his Leuce. It is a cook who is speaking:— A. Do you know how you ought to dress a lizard? B. I shall, when you have taught me. A. First of all Take off the gills, then wash him, then cut off The spines all round, and split him open neatly; Then when you've laid him flat, anoint him well And thoroughly with assafœetida; Sprinkle him then with cheese, and salt, and marjoram. And Ephippus, in his Cydon, gives a list of many other fishes, and among them he mentions the lizard, in the following lines:— Slices of tunny, and of glanis, Of shark, and rhine, and of conger, Cephalus, perch, and lizard too, And phycis, brinchus, also mullet, Sea-cuckoo, phagrus, myllus, sparus, Lebias, æolias, and sea-swallow, Thritta, and squid, and cuttle-fish, Sea-sparrow, and dracænides. The polypus, the squid, and orphus, The tench, th' anchovy, and the cestres, And last of all the needle-fish. And Innesimachus, in his Horse-breeder, says— Of fish with teeth serrated, you may eat The grim torpedo, the sea-frog, the perch, The lizard, and the trichias, and the phycis, The brinchus, and the mullet, and sea-cuckoo. There is also the scepinus; and this fish is mentioned by Dorion, in his treatise on Fish; and he says that it is also called the attageinus, or sea-woodcock.
