66. But Antigonus the Carystian, in his treatise on Language, says that the tunny is sacrificed to Neptune, as we have already mentioned. But Heracleon the Ephesian says that the Attic writers call the tunny the orcynus. And Sostratus, in the second book of his treatise on Animals, says that the pelamys is called the thunnis, or female tunny-fish; but that when it becomes larger, it is called thunnus; and when it gets to a larger size still, it is called the orcynus; and that when it has grown to a size which is quite enormous, then it is called cetus. And Æschylus likewise mentions the tunny, saying— I bid you take up hammers now, and beat The fiery mass of iron, which will utter No groan, but bear in silence like the tunny. And in another place he says— Turning his eye aside, just like the tunny; because the tunny cannot see well out of his left eye, as Aristotle has said. Menander, in his Fishermen, says— And the disturbed and muddy sea which breeds The largest tunnies. And in Sophron we find the word θυννοθήρας (a hunter of tunnies); but the same fish which is usually called θύννος, the Attic writers call θυννίς. 67. But as to the thunnis, Aristotle says that this is the female, differing from the male thunnus in having a fin under the belly, the name of which fin is the "ather." But in his treatise on the Parts of Animals, he again distinguishes the thunnis from the thunnus; saying, that "in the summer, about the month Hecatombæon, it drops something like a bag, in which there are a great number of small eggs." And Speusippus, in the second book of his Similitudes, distinguishes the thunnis from the thunnus; and so does Epicharmus, in his Muses. But Cratinus, in his Pluti, says— For I'm a thunnis, a melænas, or A thunnus, orphos, grayling, eel, or sea-dog. And Aristotle, in his treatise on Fishes, says that the thunnis is a gregarious fish, and also a migratory one. But Archestratus, who is so fond of petty details, says— And then the thunna's tail, which I call thunnis, That mighty fish, whose home's Byzantium. Cut it in slices, and then roast it all With accurate care, strewing on nought but salt, Most thinly spread; then sprinkle a little oil; Then eat it hot, first dipping it in brine. Or if you like to eat them dry they're good; Like the immortal gods in character, And figure too; but if you once forget, And vinegar add to them, then you spoil them. And Antiphanes, in his Pæderastes, says— And the middle slices take Of the choice Byzantian tunny, And let them be neatly hidden Under leaves from beet-root torn. Antiphanes also praises the tail of the thunnis, in his Couris, where he says—