But Nausicrates, the comic poet, praises the mullets from Æxona, in his Captains of Ships, saying— _A._ Those yellow-fleshed fish, which the high wave That beats Æxona brings towards the shore, The best of fish; with which we venerate The light-bestowing daughter of great Jove; When sailors offer gifts of feasts to heaven. _B._ You mean the mullet. 128. There is, too, the tænia; and this is mentioned by Epicharmus:— The most belovèd tænia, which are thin, But highly flavour'd, and need little fire. And Mithæcus, in his Cookery Book, says—"Having taken out the entrails of the tænia, and cut off its head, and washed it, and having cut it into slices, sprinkle over it cheese and oil." But this fish is found in the greatest number and in the finest condition off Canopus, which is near Alexandria; and also off Seleucia, which is close to Antioch. But when Eupolis, in his Prospaltii, says— His mother was a Thracian woman, A seller of tæniæ; he then means by the word ταινία, not the fish, but those pieces of woven work and girdles with which women bind their waists. 129. Another fish is the trachurus, or rough-tail. Diocles mentions this as a dry fish. And Numenius, in his Art of Fishing, says— The aconia and the wagtail too, And the . . . . trachurus. There is also the taulopias. Concerning this fish, Archestratus says— When it is summer buy a good-sized head Of fresh taulopias, just when Phaethon Is driving his last course. Dress it with speed, Serve it up hot, and some good seasoning with it, Then take its entrails, spit and roast them too. 130. There is also the τευθὶς, [which is a kind of cuttle-fish, different from the σηπίς.] Aristotle says that this also is a gregarious fish, and that it has a great many things in common with the sepia; such as the same number of feet, and the two proboscises: but of this kind the lower feet are the smaller, and the upper feet the larger; and of the proboscises, that on the right side is the thickest: and the whole body is delicate, and of a more oblong shape than the sepia. And the teuthis also has ink in its mutis, which, however, is not black, but of a pale colour. And its shell is very small, and cartilaginous. There is also the teuthus; and the only difference between the teuthus and the teuthis is in size: and the teuthus is of the size of three spans; and it is of a reddish colour. And of its two teeth, the lower one is the smallest, and the upper one is the largest; and both of them are black, and like a hawk's beak. And when it is slit open, it has a paunch like a pig's paunch. Aristotle, in the fifth book of his Parts of Animals, says that both the teuthus and the sepia are short-lived fish. And Archestratus, who travelled and sailed over the whole earth, for the sake of gratifying his greedy appetite, says,—