125. The next fish is the mullet; and τρίγλη is like κίχλη, ending in η. For the feminine nouns which end in λα require another λ before the λα; as σκύλλα, Τελέσιλλα. But all the words which have γ united to λ end in η; as τρώγλη, αἴγλη, ζεύγλη. But Aristotle, in the fifth book of his Parts of Animals, says that the mullet brings forth three times in the year; and states that the fishermen have adopted this opinion from the spawn being seen three times a-year in certain localities. And perhaps it is from the word τρὶς (three times) that it has its name; just as the fish called ἀμία has its name from its being a fish which does not go about by itself, but in shoals (ἄμα). And the σκάροϛ is so called from σκαίρω (to leap); as also is the καρίς. And the ἀφύη is so named as being ἀφυὴϛ, which is equivalent to δυσφυὴς, that is to say, slowly propagated. Then θύννος has its name from θύω (to rush), because it is an impetuous fish, from being driven about by its fly in the head at the time of the rising of the Dog-star. But it is a fish with serrated teeth, gregarious, and spotted all over, and also carnivorous: and when it has had young three times it becomes barren; for some little worms are engendered in its womb, which devour the young as soon as they are conceived. And from the actual facts, Epicharmus calls them hump-backed, in his Hebe's Wedding, where he says— He brought the hump-back'd mullet too, And the ungrateful bæones. But Sophron, in his Male Farces, speaks of a fish which he calls τρίγολη, saying, The trigola which cuts the navel string. And in another place he says— The trigola which loves calm weather. And in his play called Pædica he says— . . . . . trigola . . . . But, in his Affairs of Women, he says— The bearded mullet (τρίγλη). But Diocles, in his books addressed to Plistarchus, says that the mullet is a fish of hard flesh; and Speusippus says that the sea-cuckoo, the sea-swallow, and the mullet are all alike; on which account Tryphon says, in his treatise on Animals, that some people think that the trigola is the sea-cuckoo, from its likeness to it, and from the dryness of its hind-quarters; which Sophron indicates, when he says— The fat mullets and the hinder parts of the trigola. 126. But Plato, in his Phaon, says— The mullet is not wholesome for the nerves, For it is sacred to the chaste Diana, And all excitement hates.