Book 3
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And Dionysiocles said, "Whoever wrote the verses, my good Leonidas, is a matter which you all, as being grammarians of the highest reputation, are very capable of deciding. But since the discussion is turning upon pickles and salt fish, concerning which I recollect a proverb which was thought deserving of being quoted by Charchus the Solensian,— For old salt-fish is fond of marjoram. I too myself will say a word on the subject, which is not unconnected with my own art.
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Diodes the Carystian, in his treatise on the Wholesomes, as it is entitled, says, Of all salt-fish which are destitute of fat, the best is the horæum; and of all that are fat, the best is the tunny-fish. But Icesius says, that neither the pelamydes nor the horæa are easily secreted by the stomach; and that the younger tunnies are similar in most respects to the cybii, but that they have a great superiority over those which are called horæa. And he says the same of the Byzantine horæa, in comparison with those which are caught in other places. And he says that not only the tunnies, but that all other fish caught at Byzantium is superior to that which is caught elsewhere.
