And Speusippus, in the second book of his Similarities, says that of soft-shelled animals the following are nearly like one another. The coracus, the astacus, the nymphe, the arctus, the carcinus, and the pagurus. And Diocles the Carystian says, "Carides, carcini, carabi, and astaci, are pleasant to the taste and diuretic." And Epicharmus has also mentioned the colybdæna in the lines I have quoted above; which Nicander calls the beauty of the sea; but Heraclides in his Cookery Book gives that name to the caris. But Aristotle, in the fifth book of his Parts of Animals, says, "Of soft-shelled animals the carabi, the astaci, the carides, and others of the same sort, are propagated like quadrupeds; and they breed at the beginning of spring; as indeed is no secret to anybody; but at times they breed when the fig begins to ripen. Now carabi are found in rough and rocky places; but astaci in smooth ground; neither kind in muddy places: on which account there are astaci produced in the Hellespont and about Thasos; and carabi off Cape Sigeum and Mount Athos. But the whole race of crabs is long-lived. But Theophrastus, in his book on Animals who dive in Holes, says that the astaci and carabi and carides all cast off their old age. 66. But concerning carides, Ephorus mentions in his first book that there is a city called Carides near the island of Chios; and he says that it was founded by Macar and those of his companions who were saved out of the deluge which happened in the time of Deucalion; and that to this very day the place is called Carides. But Archestratus, the inventor of made dishes, gives these recommendations-- But if you ever come to Iasus, A city of the Carians, you shall have A caris of huge size, but rare to buy. Many there are where Macedon is wash'd By the deep sea, and in Ambracia's gulf. But Araros in his Campylion has used the word καρῖδα with the penultima circumflexed and long-- The strangely bent carides did leap forth Like dolphins into the rope-woven vessel. And Eubulus says in his Orthane-- I put a carid (καρῖδα) down and took it up again. Anaxandrides says in his Lycurgus-- And he plays with little carids (καριδάριον), And little partridges, and little lettuces; And little sparrows, and with little cups, And little scindaries, and little gudgeons. And the same poet says in his Pandarus-- If you don't stoop, my friend, you'll upright be. But she is like a carid (καριδόω) in her person; Bent out, and like an anchor standing firm. And in his Cerkios he says-- I'll make them redder than a roasted carid (καρῖδος). And Eubulus says in his Grandmothers-- And carids (καρῖδες) of the humpback'd sort. And Ophelion says in his Callæschrus-- There lay the crooked carids (καρῖδες) on dry ground. And in his Ialemus we find-- And then they danced as crooked limbed carides (καρῖδες) Dance on the glowing embers.