[25] Perhaps the word was σαπερδίς, which in _Aristotle_, Hist. Anim. VIII. 30., signifies a certain fish, for in _Athenaeus_, Deipnos. p. 591., σαπέρδιον (the diminutive) is the nick-name of a _hetaera_, and when _Diogenes_ (Diogenes Laertius, VI. 2. 6.) made a scholar wear a σαπέρδης, the latter threw it away (ὑπ’ αἰδοῦς ῥίψας), (having cast it from him in disgust). Note at the same time that the word _Sarapis_ also occurs in _Plautus_ (Paenulus V. 5. 30 sqq.), where Anthemonides says: Ligula, i in malam crucem Tune hic amator audes esse, hallex viri? Aut contrectare, quod mares homines amant? Deglupta maena, _Sarapis_ sementium, Mastruga, ἃλς ἀγορᾶς ἅμα; tum autem plenior. Allii ulpicique, quam Romani remiges. (Thou mannikin, go to and be crucified! Dost dare to play the lover here, thou Tom Thumb of a man? or to meddle with what male men love? Skinned sprat, _Sarapis_ of the corn-crops, sheepskin, common salt of the market; and yet reeking worse of garlic and leek than Roman bargees!). To restore this undoubtedly corrupt text is beyond our powers, but this much at any rate results from the passage as a whole that _Sarapis_ or _Sarrapis_ here too signifies a vicious man. Anthemonides certainly takes Hanno, to whom this speech is addressed, for a _cinaedus_, for he says later on: “nam te cinaedum esse arbitror magis quam virum” (but I reckon you to be a cinaedus rather than a man), and he had previously said: “Quis hic homo est _cum tunicis longis_, quasi puer cauponius?” (Who is this fellow _with the long tunics_, like a waiter at a cookshop?) and “Sane genus hoc muliebrosum est tunicis demissitiis.” (Surely this is a womanish sort, _with his trailing tunics_). Similarly _Turnebus_, Adversar. bk. X. ch. 24., mentions the fact that _Hesychius_ explains σάραπις by περσικὸς χιτὼν (a Persian tunic). However he prefers to read, instead of _Sarrapis_, _arra pisa ementium_, (pledge of such as buy at the price of one pea) in reference to the vice of Bacchus, “obscoenum et mollem virum, qui pro arra dari possit vilis mercimonii.” (a foul and deboshed man, fit only to be given as pledge at the value of any cheap commodity).