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And Aristophanes, in his Knights, speaks of the pike taken in the neighbourhood of Miletus as surpassingly good, when he speaks thus:— But you shall not disturb me thus Feasting on Milesian pike. And in his Lemnian Women he says— He would not buy a pike's head, nor a locust: speaking because the brain of the pike is a great delicacy, as is also that of the sea-grayling. And Eubulus, in his Muses, says— Do not be too expensive, still not mean, Whate'er you do; not for decency's sake. Get some small cuttle-fish, or squids, some nestis, Some small fry of the polypus, some tripe, And beestings and black-puddings; get besides A noble head of the Milesian pike. But the Gæson, which is mentioned by Archestratus, means the lake Gæsonis, which is between Priene and Miletus, con- nected with the sea, as Neanthes of Cyzicus tells us in the sixth book of his Hellenics. But Ephorus, in his fifth book, says that the Gæson is a river near Priene, which flows into the lake Gæsonis, And Archippus, in his Fishes, mentioning the pike, says— Hermes th' Egyptian is the greatest rogue Of all the fishmongers; he skins by force The sharks and rhinos, and takes out the entrails Of the Milesian pikes, before he sells them.
