very loose tongue, and a white and broad heart." Pherecrates, in his Slave-Tutor, says—
The harp-fish is a good fish; be you sure
To buy him when you can. He really is good;
But, I by Phœbus swear, this does perplex me
Exceedingly which men do say, my friend,
That there is secret harm within this harp-fish.
Epicharmus says, in his Marriage of Hebe—
There were hyænides,
And fine buglossi, and the harp-fish too
And Apollodorus has said that, on account of his name, he was considered to be sacred to Apollo. And Callias, or Diocles, whichever was the author of the play, says in the Cyclops—
A roasted harp-fish, and a ray,
And the head of a well-fed tunny.
And Archestratus, in his Luxurious Way of Living, says—
I counsel you always to boil a harp-fish
If he is white and full of firmish meat;
But if he's red and also no great size,
Then it were best, when you have prick'd him o'er
With a new sharpen'd knife, to roast him gently.
Sprinkle him then with oil and plenteous cheese,
For he does like to see men liberal,
And is himself intemperate.
74. There is also the cordylus. Aristotle calls this fish an amphibious animal, and says that it dies if it is dried by the sun. But Numenius, in his book on the Art of Fishing, calls it the courylus:—
All things are ready. First I strip the thighs
Of courylus, or pirene, and treat too
In the same way the marine grasshopper.
He also speaks of the fish called the cordylis, in these lines—
Mussels, sea-horses, or the sea-green cordylis.
75. There is also a fish called cammorus. Epicharmus, in his Marriage of Hebe, says—
Then after this there are boaces and
Smarides, anchovies, also cammori.
And Sophron, in his Female Farces, mentions them. But they are a species of squill, and this name was given them by the Romans.
76. There is also a fish called the carcharias. Numenius of Heraclea, in his Art of Fishing, says—
