Kitap 7
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There is another fish called the horse; and perhaps it is the same which Epicharmus calls the hippidion, or little horse, when he says— The coracinus colour'd like a crow, Fat, well-fed fish; the smooth hippidion, The phycæ and the tender squill . . . And Numenius, in his Art, of Fishing, says— The char, the mighty tench of size enormous, The channus, and the eel; and he who roves By night, the wary pitynus; the mussel, The horse-fish, or the sea-green corydulis. And Antimachus the Colophonian mentions it in his Thebais, where he says— The hyca, or the horse-fish, or the one Which they do call the thrush.
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There is a fish, too, called the ioulis, concerning which Dorion says, in his treatise on Fishes, Recollect that if you boil the ioulis, you must do it in brine; and if you roast them, you must roast them with marjoram. And Numenius says— And ne'er neglect the medicine which keeps off To a great degree the greedy fish ioulis, And scolopendrus that doth poison dart. But the same writer calls them ioulus, and the entrails of the earth, in the following lines:— Moreover do not then the bait forget, Which on the highest hills that fringe the shore Shall soon be found. And they are called iouli, Black, eating earth-the entrails of the earth; Or the long-footed grasshopper, what time The sandy rocks are sprinkled with the foam Of the high-rising tide. Then dig them up, And stow them carefully within your bag.
