Epicharmus also uses the word in the masculine gender, ὁ τάριχος. And Herodotus does the same in his ninth book; where he says--"The salt-fish (οἱ τάριχοι) lying on the fire, leaped about and quivered." And the proverbs, too, in which the word occurs, have it in the masculine gender:-- Salt-fish (τάριχος) is done if it but see the fire. Salt-fish (τάριχος) when too long kept loves marjoram. Salt-fish (τάριχος) does never get its due from men. But the Attic writers often use it as a neuter word; and the genitive case, as they use it, is τοῦ ταρίχους. Chionides says, in his Beggars-- Will you then eat some pickled fish (τοῦ ταρίχους), ye gods! And the dative is ταρίχει, like ξίφει-- Beat therefore now upon this pickled fish (τῷ ταρίχει τῷδε). And Menander uses it τάριχος, in the accusative case, in his Man selecting an Arbitrator-- I spread some salt upon the pickled fish (ἐπὶ τὸ τάριχος). But when the word is masculine the genitive case does not end with σ. 90. The Athenians were so fond of pickled fish that they enrolled as citizens the sons of Chærephilus the seller of salt-fish; as Alexis tells us, in his Epidaurus, when he says-- For 'twas salt-fish that made Athenians And citizens of Chærephilus's sons. And when Timocles once saw them on horseback, he said that two tunny-fish were among the Satyrs. And Hyperides the orator mentions them too. And Antiphanes speaks of Euthynus the seller of pickled fish, in his Couris, in these terms:-- And going to the salt-fish seller, him I mean with whom I used to deal, there wait for me; And if Euthynus be not come, still wait, And occupy the man with fair excuses, And hinder him from cutting up the fish. And Alexis, in his Hippiscus, and again in his Soraci, makes mention of Phidippus; and he too was a dealer in salt-fish-- There was another man, Phidippus hight, A foreigner who brought salt-fish to Athens.