With limpets and sea-urchins and escharæ,
And with periwinkles and cockles.
And Diocles says that the strongest of all shell-fish are cockles, purple-fish, and ceryces. But concerning ceryces Archippus says this—
The ceryx, ocean's nursling, child of purple.
But Speusippus, in the second book of his Similarities, says that ceryces, purple-fish, strabeli, and cockles, are all very nearly alike. And Sophocles makes mention of the shell-fish called strabeli in his Camici, in these words:—
Come now, my son, and look if we may find
Some of the nice strabelus, ocean's child.
And again Speusippus enumerates separately in regular order the cockle, the periwinkle, the mussel, the pinna, the solens; and in another place he speaks of oysters and limpets. And Araros says, in his Campylion—
These now are most undoubted delicacies,
Cockles and solens; and the crooked locusts
Spring forth in haste like dolphins.
And Sophron says, in his Mimi—
| A. | What are these long cockles, O my friend, Which you do think so much of? |
| B. | Solens, to be sure. This too is the sweet-flesh'd cockle, dainty food, The dish much loved by widows. |
And Cratinus also speaks of the pinna in his Archilochi—