Are you at Rhodes? e'en if about to die, Still, if a man would sell you a fox shark, The fish the Syracusans call the dog, Seize on it eagerly; at least, if fat: And then compose yourself to meet your fate With brow serene and mind well satisfied. Lynceus, the Samian, also quotes these verses in his letter to Diagoras, and says that the poet is quite right in advising the man who cannot afford the price for one, to gratify his appetite by robbery rather than go without it. For he says that Theseus, who I take to have been some very good-looking man, offered to indulge Tlepolemus in anything if he would only give him one of these fish. And Timocles, in his play called The Ring, says— Galei and rays, and all the fish besides Which cooks do dress with sauce and vinegar. 45. There is also the sea-grayling. Epicharmus, in his Hebe's Wedding, says— There is the variegated scorpion, The lizard, and the fat sea-grayling too. And Numenius, in his Treatise on Fishing, says— The hycca, the callicthys, and the chromis, The orphus, the sea-grayling too, who haunts The places where seaweed and moss abound. And Archestratus, praising the head of the glaucus, says— If you're at Megara or at Olynthus, Dress me a grayling's head. For in the shallows Around those towns he's taken in perfection. And Antiphanes, in his Shepherd, says— Bœotian eels, and mussels too from Pontus, Graylings from Megara, from Carystus shrimps, Eretrian phagri, and the Scyrian crabs. [Sidenote: FISH.] And the same writer, in his Philotis, speaks thus— _A._ What shall be done with the grayling? _B._ Why Now, as at other times, boil him in brine. _A._ What with the pike? _B._ Why roast him whole, and dish him. _A._ What with the galeus? _B._ Do him up with stuffing, And serve him hot. _A._ How will you have the eels? _B._ Cook them with salt, and marjoram, and water. _A._ The conger? _B._ Do the same. _A._ The ray? _B._ Take herbs And season him with them. _A._ There is besides Half a large tunny. _B._ Roast it. _A._ Some goat's venison. _B._ Roast that. _A._ How will you have the rest o' the meat? _B._ All boil'd. _A._ The spleen? _B._ Stuff that. _A._ The paunch and trail? 46. And Eubulus says, in his Campylion,— There was a beautiful dish of the sea-grayling, And a boil'd pike served up i' savoury pickle.