99. There is also the cod and the hake. The cod, says Aristotle, in his work on Living Animals, has a large wide mouth like the shark, and he is not a gregarious fish; and he is the only fish which has his heart in his stomach, and in his brain he has stones like millstones. And he is the only fish who buries himself in a hole in the hot weather, when the Dog-star rages; for all others take to their holes in the winter season. And these fish are mentioned by Epicharmus, in his Hebe's Wedding:— And there are channæ with their large wide mouths, And cod with their huge bellies. But the cod is different from the hake, as Dorion tells us, in his work upon Fish, where he writes thus: "The ὄνος (cod), which some call γάδος." There is also the gallerides, which some call a hake, and some a maxinus. But Euthydemus, in his work on Cured Fish, says, "Some call this fish the bacchus, and some call it the gelaria, and some call it the hake." But Archestratus says— Anthedon's famous for its cod, which some Do call gallerias; there its size is great, But the flesh spongy, and in many respects I do not think it good, though others praise it. But this man likes one thing, and that another. 100. There is the polypus, declined πολύπους, πολύποδος; at least this is the way the Attic writers use the word, and so does Homer:— As when a polypus (πουλύποδος in the genitive) is dragged from out his lair: [Sidenote: FISH.] keeping the analogy to the noun ποὺς, from which it is derived. But in the accusative case we find the form πολύπουν, just as we find Ἀλκίνουν and Οἰδίπουν. Æschylus, too, has the form τρίπουν, as an epithet of a caldron, in his Athamas, from ποὺς, as if it were a simple noun like νοῦς. But the form πώλυπος is Æolic. For the Attics always say πολύπους. Aristophanes, in his Dædalus, says— When then I had this polypus (πουλύπους) and cuttle-fish. And in another place he says— He put before me a polypus (πουλύπουν). And in another place he has— They are the blows of a polypus press'd tight. And Alcæus says, in his Adulterous Sisters,— The man's a fool and has the mind of a polypus (πουλύποδος). But Ameipsias, in his Glutton, says— I want, it seems, a heap of polypi (πουλύπων). And Plato, in his Boy, writes— First of all you like the polypodes (τοὺς πουλύποδας). Alcæus in another passage says— I myself eat like any polypus (πουλύπους). But others use the accusative case πολύποδα, in strict analogy with ποὺς, ποδὸς, ποδὶ, πόδα. Eupolis, in his Demi, has— The man's a fellow-citizen of mine, A very polypus in disposition.