Kitap 3
92
But Strabo, in the third book of his work on Geography, says that near the Islands of Hercules,The Balearic Isles. and off the city of Carthagena, is a city named Sexitania, from which the salt-fish above-mentioned derive their name; and there is another city called Scombroaria, so called from the scombri which are caught in its neighbourhood, and of them the best sauce is made. But there are also fish which are called melandryæ, which are mentioned by Epicharmus also, in his Ulysses the Deserter, in this way— Then there was salt and pickled fish to eat, Something not quite unlike melandryæ. But the melandrys is the largest description of tunny, as Pamphilus explains in his treatise on Names; and that when preserved is very rich and oily.
