The hyca, or the horse-fish, or the one Which they do call the thrush. 70. There is a fish, too, called the ioulis, concerning which Dorion says, in his treatise on Fishes, "Recollect that if you boil the ioulis, you must do it in brine; and if you roast them, you must roast them with marjoram." And Numenius says— And ne'er neglect the medicine which keeps off To a great degree the greedy fish ioulis, And scolopendrus that doth poison dart. But the same writer calls them ioulus, and the entrails of the earth, in the following lines:— Moreover do not then the bait forget, Which on the highest hills that fringe the shore Shall soon be found. And they are called iouli, Black, eating earth—the entrails of the earth; Or the long-footed grasshopper, what time The sandy rocks are sprinkled with the foam Of the high-rising tide. Then dig them up, And stow them carefully within your bag. 71. There are also fish called κίχλη, the sea-thrush, and κόσσυφος, the sea-blackbird. The Attic writers call the first κίχλη, with an η; and the reason is as follows:—All the feminine nouns which end in λα have another λ before the λα; as Σκύλλα, σκίλλα, κόλλα, βδέλλα, ἅμιλλα, ἅμαλλα: but those which end in λη do not require a λ to precede the λη; as ὁμίχλη, φύτλη, γενέθλη, αἴγλη, τρώγλη, and, in like manner, τρίγλη. Cratinus says— Suppose a man had eaten a red mullet (τρίγλην), Would that alone prove him an epicure? And Diocles, in the first book of his treatise on Wholesomes, says, "Those fish which are called rocky fish have tender flesh; such as the sea-blackbird, the sea-thrush, the perch, the tench, the phyca, the alphesticus." But Numenius says, in his treatise on Fishing— [Sidenote: FISH.] The sea-born race of grayling or of orphus, The black-flesh'd blackbird, or the dainty sea-thrush Sporting beneath the waves. And Epicharmus, in his Hebe's Wedding, says— Bambradones, sea-thrushes, and sea-hares; And the bold dragon-fish. And Aristotle, in his treatise on What concerns Animals, says, "And the fishes with black spots, like the sea-blackbird; and the fishes with variegated spots, like the sea-thrush." But Pancrates the Arcadian, in his Works of the Sea, says that the sea-thrush is called by many names:— Add now to these the sea-thrush red, which they Who seek to snare the wary fish with bait Do call the saurus, and th' æolias, Add too th' orphiscus with his large fat head. And Nicander, in the fourth book of his Transformed People, says— The scarus or the thrush with many names.