Kitap 3
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The Athenians were so fond of pickled fish that they enrolled as citizens the sons of Chærephilus the seller of salt-fish; as Alexis tells us, in his Epidaurus, when he says— For 'twas salt-fish that made Athenians And citizens of Chærephilus's sons. And when Timocles once saw them on horseback, he said that two tunny-fish were among the Satyrs. And Hyperides the orator mentions them too. And Antiphanes speaks of Euthynus the seller of pickled fish, in his Couris, in these terms:— And going to the salt-fish seller, him I mean with whom I used to deal, there wait for me; And if Euthynus be not come, still wait, And occupy the man with fair excuses, And hinder him from cutting up the fish. And Alexis, in his Hippiscus, and again in his Soraci, makes mention of Phidippus; and he too was a dealer in salt-fish— There was another man, Phidippus hight, A foreigner who brought salt-fish to Athens.
