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There is also a fish called the hippurus, or horsetail. Aristotle, in the fifth book of his treatise on the Parts of Animals, says that the hippuri lay eggs, and that these are small at first, but come to a great size, like those of the lam- prey; and that they bring forth their young in the spring. But Dorion, in his book upon Fish, says that the hippurus is also called the coryphæna. But Icesius calls it the hippuris; and Epicharmas also mentions them in his Hebe's Wedding, saying— The sharp-nosed needle-fish, And the hippurus, and bright chrysophrys. But Numenius, in his treatise on the Art of Fishing, speaking of the nature of the fish, says that it keeps continually leaping out of the water; on which account it is also called the Tumbler. And he uses the following expressions about it:— Or the great synodons, or tumbler hippurus. And Archestratus says— Th' hippurus of Carystus is the best, And indeed all Carystian fish are good. And Epænetus, in his Cookery Book, says that it is called also the coryphoena.
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There is another fish called the horse; and perhaps it is the same which Epicharmus calls the hippidion, or little horse, when he says— The coracinus colour'd like a crow, Fat, well-fed fish; the smooth hippidion, The phycæ and the tender squill . . . And Numenius, in his Art, of Fishing, says— The char, the mighty tench of size enormous, The channus, and the eel; and he who roves By night, the wary pitynus; the mussel, The horse-fish, or the sea-green corydulis. And Antimachus the Colophonian mentions it in his Thebais, where he says— The hyca, or the horse-fish, or the one Which they do call the thrush.
