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Hermippus mentions also Nothippus the tragic poet, in his Tales, thus— But if such a race of men Were to wage a present war With those who now exist on earth, And if a roast ray led them on, Or a fine side of well-fed pork, The rest might safely stay at home, And trust Nothippus by himself, For he alone would swallow up The whole Peloponnesus:— and that the man meant here was the poet, Teleclides shows plainly, in his Hesiods.
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Myniscus, the tragic actor, is ridiculed by Plato, the comic writer, in his Syrphax, as an epicure in respect of fish; where he says— A. Here is an Anagyrasian orphus for you, Which e'en my friend Myniscus the Chalcidean Could hardly finish. B. Much obliged to you. And for a similar reason, Callias, in his Pedetæ, and Lysippus, in his Bacchæ, ridicule Lampon the soothsayer. But Cratinus, in his Female Runaways, speaking of him, says—Lam- pon, whom nothing which men said of him could keep away from any banquet of his friends; and adds, But now again he is belching away; for he devours everything which he can see, and he would fight even for a mullet.
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And Hedylus, in his Epigrams, giving a list of epicures in fish, mentions a man named Phaedo, in these lines:— But Phædo, that great harpist, praises phyces, And sausages, he's such an epicure. And he mentions Agisoto, in these lines:— The fish is boil'd, now firmly bar the doors, Lest Agis, Proteus of the dishes, enter; For he'll be fire, water,—what he likes; But bar the door . . . . . . For he, transform'd, like Jupiter, to gold Will hasten to this rich Acrisian dish. He also speaks of a woman named Clio, on a similar account, saying— Clio's an epicure. Let's shut our eyes. I beg you, Clio, by yourself to feed. This conger costs a drachma; leave a pledge, A band, an earring, or some ornament. But we cannot endure the sight of you; You're our Medusa; and we're turn'd to stone, Not by the Gorgon, but by that whole conger.
