9. I know, too, that Phylarchus has spoken, somewhere or other, about large fish, and about fresh figs which were sent with them; saying that Patroclus, the general of Ptolemy, sent such a present to Antigonus the king, by way of a riddle, as the Scythians sent an enigmatical present to Darius, when he was invading their country. For they sent (as Herodotus relates) a bird, and an arrow, and a frog. But Patroclus (as Phylarchus tells us, in the third book of his Histories) sent the before-mentioned fishes and figs; and the king, at the time that they arrived, happened to be drinking with his friends, and when all the party were perplexed at the meaning of the gifts, Antigonus laughed, and said to his friends that he knew what was the meaning of the present; "for," says he, "Patroclus means that we must either be masters of the sea, or else be content to eat figs." 10. Nor am I unaware that all fishes are called by one generic name, camasenes, by Empedocles the natural philosopher, when he says— How could the mighty trees and sea-born camasenes . . . And the poet, too, who wrote the Cyprian poems (whether he was a Cyprian or a man of the name of Stasinus, or whatever else his name may have been), represents Nemesis as pursued by Jupiter, and metamorphosed into a fish, in the following lines:— And after them she brought forth Helen third, A marvel to all mortal men to see; Her then the fair-hair'd Nemesis did bear, Compell'd by Jove, the sovereign of the gods. She indeed fled, nor sought to share the love Of that great father, son of Saturn, Jove; For too great awe did overpower her mind: So Nemesis did flee o'er distant lands, And o'er the black and barren waves o' the sea; [Sidenote: FISH.] But Jove pursued her (and with eagerness His soul desired her). In vain she took The form of some large fish who bounds along, Borne on the vast high-crested roaring wave; Sometimes she fled along the ocean, where The earth's most distant boundaries extend; Sometimes she fled along the fertile land; And took all shapes of every animal Which the land bears, to flee from amorous Jove.