Book 3
64
While Ulpian was continuing to talk in this way, the servants came in bearing on some dishes some crabs bigger than Callimedon, the orator, who, because he was so very fond of this food was himself called the Crab. Accordingly, Alexis, in his Dorcis, or the Flatterer, (as also others of the comic poets do,) hands him down, as a general rule, as being most devoted to fish, saying— It has been voted by the fish-sellers, To raise a brazen statue to Callimedon At the Panathenaic festival In the midst of the fish-market; and the statue Shall in his right hand hold a roasted crab, As being the sole patron of their trade, Which other men neglect and seek to crush.
