[510] _Hermes_ (1887), XXII. 86. 100. The reason here stated for the Eel being sacrificiable was because it could be brought alive to the altar and its blood poured out on it. Stengel’s argument, especially in association with his remark that sacrifices of fish were as scarce as those of game, is not convincing, for why should not other fishes be kept alive in water till the hour of oblation? The belief in the sanctity of the Eel pertains even unto our day, for in the spring at Bergas (between the Dardanelles and Lapsaki) they are or were before the War inviolate. [511] _Fasti_, III. 339 ff. [512] Festus, p. 274, 35 ff. W. Lindsay. [513] Plutarch, _Symp._, VIII. 8. 4. [514] _De Lingua Latina_, 6. 20 (in his description of the _Volcanalia_). [515] F. Boehm, _De symbolis Pythagoreis_ (Berlin, 1905), p. 19, would connect the fish-offering of the _Volcanalia_ with the belief that the soul took the form of a fish. G. Wissowa, _Religion und Kultus der Römer_,^2 (München, 1912), p. 229, m. 13. [516] Cf., however, Keller, _op. cit._, 348. [517] Pliny, IX. 22, and XXXII. 8. Ælian, VIII. 5; XII. 1. Athen. VIII. 8, Plutarch, _De soll. Anim._ ch. 23. Hesych. _s.v._ Soura. [518] Pliny, XXXI. 18. [519] _De Re Rust._, III. 17, 4. [520] Suetonius, _Augustus_, 96. The subject of oracular fish is dealt with by A. Bouché-Leclercq, _Histoire de la divination_ (Paris, 1879), i. p. 151 f., and also by W. R. Halliday, _Greek Divination_, p. 168, n. 3. [521] O. Keller, _op. cit._, 347. [522] The cause, sympathy with their owners, mentioned by Robinson, _op. cit._, 88-9, hardly recommends itself. [523] The Greek term, ταρίχη, was applied to _Conserves de viande et poisson_—but chiefly the latter. Salted fish was a food far commoner among the Latins than among the Greeks (Daremberg and Saglio). Sausages—_Isicia_ or _Insicia_—were made from fish as well as meat. Of both there were, according to Apicius (Bk. II.), many preparations, those from fish being in great demand. [524] Nonnius, _op. cit._, p. 155. Apart from fashionable mania, the _salsamentum_ was used for very practical purposes, _e.g._ as food for the Athenian soldier on campaign. Cf. Aristoph., _Ach._, 1101, 2. From the frequent notices and quotations in Athenæus, Euthydemus the Athenian seems to have been the most prolific author on pickled fish. On him and his three treatises, see Pauly-Winowa, _Real. Enc._, VI. 1505.