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There is a fish, too, called the ioulis, concerning which Dorion says, in his treatise on Fishes, Recollect that if you boil the ioulis, you must do it in brine; and if you roast them, you must roast them with marjoram. And Numenius says— And ne'er neglect the medicine which keeps off To a great degree the greedy fish ioulis, And scolopendrus that doth poison dart. But the same writer calls them ioulus, and the entrails of the earth, in the following lines:— Moreover do not then the bait forget, Which on the highest hills that fringe the shore Shall soon be found. And they are called iouli, Black, eating earth-the entrails of the earth; Or the long-footed grasshopper, what time The sandy rocks are sprinkled with the foam Of the high-rising tide. Then dig them up, And stow them carefully within your bag.
