A polypus, a cuttle-fish, and quickly-moving squid, A foul-smelling bolbitine, and chattering old woman. And Archestratus says— The Carian and the Thasian polypi Are far the best; Corcyra too can breed Fish of large size and very numerous. But the Dorians spell the word with an ω, πωλύπους; as, for instance, Epicharmus. Simonides too has the expression, πώλυπον διζήμενος. But the Attics spell the word πολύπους, with an ο: and it is a cartilaginous fish; for χονδρώδης and σελαχώδης have the same meaning;— The polypodes and the dog-shark. Moreover, all the fish belonging to the species of the cuttle-fish are called molluscous. But the whole tribe of . . . . . is cartilaginous. 108. There is also a fish called the pagurus; and it is mentioned by Timocles or Xenarchus, in his Purple, thus— But I, as being a skilful fisherman, Have carefully devised all sorts of arts To catch those vile paguri, enemies To all the gods and all the little fishes. And shall I not without delay beguile An old buglossus? That would be well done. 109. There is also the pelamys. Phrynichus mentions it in his Muses; and Aristotle, in the fifth book of his treatise on the Parts of Animals, says the pelamydes and the tunnies breed in the Black Sea, but not anywhere else. Sophocles also mentions them, in his Shepherds:— There, too, the foreign pelamys does winter, The stranger from the Hellespont. For she Doth come with many of her kind in summer To these cool waters of the Bosphorus. 110. Then there is the perch. He also is mentioned by Diocles; and Speusippus, in the second book of his treatise on Things Resembling one another, says that the perch, the canna, and the phycis are all nearly alike. And Epicharmus says— The comaris, the sea-dog, and the cestra And variegated perch. And Numenius, in his treatise on the Art of Fishing, says— At one time perch, and at another strophades, Which keep around the rocks. The phycis too, Th' alphestes, and the red-flesh'd scorpion. There is also the phycis. This also is mentioned by Epicharmus, in his Hebe's Wedding; and by Speusippus, in the second book of his treatise on Things Resembling one another; and by Numenius: all whose testimonies are at hand. Aristotle, in his book upon Animals and their Properties, says that the phycis is surrounded with prickles and spotted. But the perch is marked with lines, and with bars running in an oblique direction. And there is a proverb also, "The perch follows the blacktail." 111. We have also the needle-fish. This also is mentioned by Epicharmus, who says— The oxyrhynchi, and the needle-fish, And the hippuri.