He also is a spotted or variegated fish; on which account his friends used to nickname Mnaseas the Locrian (or, as some call him, the Colophonian),—the man who wrote the poem called The Sports,—Salpe, on account of the variety of things in his collection. But Nymphodorus the Syracusan, in his Voyage round Asia, says that it was a Lesbian woman, named Salpe, who wrote the book called The Sports. But Alcimus, in his Affairs of Sicily, says that in Messene, in Sicily, there was a man named Botrys, who was the author of some "Sports" very like those which are attributed to Salpe. But Archippus uses the word in the masculine form, _Salpes_, saying— The ceryx shouted out, The salpes trumpeted and fetch'd seven obols. And there is a similar fish produced in the Red Sea, which is called the stromateus; and it has gold-coloured lines running along the whole of his body, as Philo tells us, in his book on Mines. [Sidenote: FISH.] 119. There is also the synodon and the synagris. They also are mentioned by Epicharmus, when he says— Synagrides, and mazi, and the synodons, With red spots variegated. And Numenius, in his treatise on Fishing, writes the word with an υ, συνόδους; and says— Then the white synodon, and boax, and triccus. And in another place he says— Fish with these baits then, if you wish to eat The mighty synodon, or diving horsetail. But Dorion writes the word σινόδους, with an ι; and so does Archestratus, in the following lines:— But try to catch a well-fed sinodon, And you will find the best in narrow straits. All this advice to Cyrus I have given, And now to you, Cleænus, I impart it. And Antiphanes says, in his Archistrata,— But who would eat an eel, or sinodon's head. 120. There is also the saurus, or lizard. Alexis mentions this fish, in his Leuce. It is a cook who is speaking:— _A._ Do you know how you ought to dress a lizard? _B._ I shall, when you have taught me. _A._ First of all Take off the gills, then wash him, then cut off The spines all round, and split him open neatly; Then when you've laid him flat, anoint him well And thoroughly with assafœtida; Sprinkle him then with cheese, and salt, and marjoram. And Ephippus, in his Cydon, gives a list of many other fishes, and among them he mentions the lizard, in the following lines:— Slices of tunny, and of glanis, Of shark, and rhinè, and of conger, Cephalus, perch, and lizard too, And phycis, brinchus, also mullet, Sea-cuckoo, phagrus, myllus, sparus, Lebias, æolias, and sea-swallow, Thritta, and squid, and cuttle-fish, Sea-sparrow, and dracænides. The polypus, the squid, and orphus, The tench, th' anchovy, and the cestres, And last of all the needle-fish. And Innesimachus, in his Horse-breeder, says—