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Dorion also mentions the eritimi, saying, that they are much the same as the chalcides, and that they are very nice in forced meat. And Epænetus, in his book upon Fishes, says—The sea-weasel; the smaris, which some call the dog'sbed; the chalcides, which they also call sardini; the eritimi, the sea-hawk, and the sea-swallow. And Aristotle, in the fifth book of his Parts of Animals, calls them sardines. And Callimachus, in his Names used by different Nations, writes thus—The encrasicholus, the eritimus, are names used by the Chalcedonians; the trichidia, the chalcis, the ictar, the atherina. And in another part, giving a list of the names of fishes, he says—The ozæna, the osmylnion, are names used by the Thurians; the iopes, the eritimi, are names used by the Athenians. And Nicander mentions the iopes in his Bœotian,— But as when round a shoal of newly born lopes, phagri, or fierce scopes roam, Or the large orphus. And Aristophanes, in his Ships of Burden, says— O wretched fish, the first of trichides To be immersed in pickle. For they used to steep in pickle all the fish which were proper to be dressed on the coals. And they called pickle, Thasian brine; as also the same poet says in his Wasps,— For before that it twice drank in the brine.
