And Icesius says that these fish are the best of all fish in sweetness, and also in delicacy of flavour in other respects. They are also most nutritious. They produce their young, as Aristotle says, in a manner similar to the cestres, wherever there are flowing rivers. Epicharmus mentions them in his Muses; and Dorion also, in his book on Fishes. And Eupolis, in his Flatterers, says— I spent a hundred drachmas upon fish, And only got eight pike, and twelve chrysophryes. But the wise Archestratus, in his Suggestions, says— Pass not the chrysophrys from Ephesus Unheeded by; which the Ephesians call The ioniscus. Take him eagerly, The produce of the venerable Selinus; Wash him, and roast him whole, and serve him up, Though he be ten full cubits long. 137. There is a fish, too, called the chalcis; and others which resemble it, namely, the thrissa, the trichis, and the eritimus. Icesius says, the fish called the chalcis, and the sea-goat, and the needle-fish, and the thrissa, are like chaff, destitute alike of fat and of juice. And Epicharmus, in his Hebe's Wedding, says— The chalcides, the sea-pig too, The sea-hawk, and the fat sea-dog. But Dorion calls it the chalcidice. And Numenius says,— But you would thus harpoon, in the same way, That chalcis and the little tiny sprat. But the χαλκεὺς is different from the χαλκὶς; and the χαλκεὺς is mentioned by Heraclides, in his Cookery Book; and by Euthydemus, in his book on Cured Fish, who says that they are bred in the country of the Cyzicenes, being a round and circular fish. But the thrissa is mentioned by Aristotle in his book on Animals and Fishes, in these words—"The following are stationary fish: the thrissa, the encrasicholus, the membras anchovy, the coracinus, the erythrinus, and the trichis." And Eupolis mentions the trichis in his Flatterers;— He was a stingy man, who once in his life Before the war did buy some trichides; But in the Samian war, a ha'p'orth of meat. And Aristophanes, in his Knights, says— If trichides were to be a penny a hundred. But Dorion, in his treatise on Fishes, speaks also of the river Thrissa; and calls the trichis trichias. Nicochares, in his Lemnian Women, says— The trichias, and the premas tunny too, Placed in enormous quantities for supper. (But there was a kind of tunny which they used to call premnas. Plato, in his Europa, has these lines— He once, when fishing, saw one of such size A man could scarcely carry it, in a shoal Of premnades, and then he let it go, Because it was a boax.) And Aristotle, in the fifth book of his Parts of Animals, calls it a trichias also, but in the book which is entitled Ζωϊκὸν, he calls it trichis. And it is said that this fish is delighted with dancing and singing, and that when it hears music it leaps up out of the sea.