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The hepatus or lebias is the next fish to be noticed. Diodes affirms that this is one of those fish which stick to the rocks; but Speusippus says that the hepatus is the same as the phagrus. But it is a solitary fish, as Aristotle declares, carnivorous, and with serrated teeth; black as to its flesh, and having eyes large, out of all proportion to the rest of its size; and its heart is triangular and white. But Archestratus, the marshal of banquets, says— Remember that the lebias is best, As also is the hepatus, in the waves Which wash the Delian and the Tenian shores.
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Then come the elacatenes, or spindle fish. Mnesima- chus, in his Horsebreeder, classes together in one line— The turbot, tunny, tench, elacatene. But they are a cetaceous fish, very good for curing in his Colons, says— The tench, th' elacatene, and the tail-fin of The sea-dog are the best for pickling. And Mnaseas of Patra says, "Of Ichthys and Hesychia, his sister, were born the galene, the lamprey, and the elacatene.
