But Aristophanes writes the line with the word _tortoise_ instead of _limpet_. And he says that Dicæarchus made a great blunder when he interpreted the line of limpets; and that the children when they get them in their mouths sing and play with them, just as idle boys among us do with the fish which we call tellina. And so, too, Sopater, the compiler of Comicalities, says in his drama which is entitled the Eubulotheombrotus:-- But stop, for suddenly a certain sound Of the melodious tellina strikes my ears. And in another place Epicharmus, in his Pyrrha and Prometheus, says-- Just look now at this tellina, and behold This periwinkle and this splendid limpet. And in Sophron cockles are called _melænides_. For now melænides will come to us, Sent from a narrow harbour. And in the play which is called "The Clown and the Fisherman," they are called the _cherambe_. And Archilochus also mentions the cherambe: and Ibycus mentions the periwinkle. And the periwinkle is called both ἀναρίτης and ἀνάρτας. And the shell being something like that of a cockle, it sticks to the rocks, just as limpets do. But Herondas, in his Coadjutrixes, says-- Sticking to the rocks as a periwinkle. And Æschylus, in his Persæ, says-- Who has plunder'd the islands producing the periwinkle? And Homer makes mention of the oyster. 32. Diocles the Carystian, in his treatise on the Wholesomes, says that the best of all shell-fish, as aperient and diuretic food, are mussels, oysters, scallops, and cockles. And Archippus says, in his poem called "Fishes,"-- With limpets and sea-urchins and escharæ, And with periwinkles and cockles. And Diocles says that the strongest of all shell-fish are cockles, purple-fish, and ceryces. But concerning ceryces Archippus says this-- The ceryx, ocean's nursling, child of purple. But Speusippus, in the second book of his Similarities, says that ceryces, purple-fish, strabeli, and cockles, are all very nearly alike. And Sophocles makes mention of the shell-fish called strabeli in his Camici, in these words:-- Come now, my son, and look if we may find Some of the nice strabelus, ocean's child. And again Speusippus enumerates separately in regular order the cockle, the periwinkle, the mussel, the pinna, the solens; and in another place he speaks of oysters and limpets. And Araros says, in his Campylion-- These now are most undoubted delicacies, Cockles and solens; and the crooked locusts Spring forth in haste like dolphins. And Sophron says, in his Mimi-- _A._ What are these long cockles, O my friend, Which you do think so much of? _B._ Solens, to be sure. This too is the sweet-flesh'd cockle, dainty food, The dish much loved by widows. And Cratinus also speaks of the pinna in his Archilochi-- She indeed like pinnas and sea oysters.