Kitap 7
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There is also the teuthus; and the only difference between the teuthus and the teuthis is in size: and the teuthus is of the size of three spans; and it is of a reddish colour. And of its two teeth, the lower one is the smallest, and the upper one is the largest; and both of them are black, and like a hawk's beak. And when it is slit open, it has a paunch like a pig's paunch. Aristotle, in the fifth book of his Parts of Animals, says that both the teuthus and the sepia are short-lived fish. And Archestratus, who travelled and sailed over the whole earth, for the sake of gratifying his greedy appetite, says,— The best of all the teuthides are those Caught near Pierian Dium, near the stream Of Baphyras. And in Ambracia's port You will see mighty shoals of this same fish. And Alexis, in his Eretrian, introduces a cook speaking in this way— Teuthides, thornbacks, rays, and fat Anchovies, lumps of meat, and paunches too. I took the teuthides, cut off their fins, Adding a little fat; I then did sprinkle Some thin shred herbs o'er all for seasoning. There is also a sort of cake or confectionary called τευθὶς, which is mentioned by Iatrocles, in his book on the Art of making Bread, as Pamphilus quotes.
