She indeed like pinnas and sea oysters.
And Philyllius, or Eunicus, or Aristophanes, in the Cities, says—
A little polypus, or a small cuttle-fish,
A crab, a crawfish, oysters, cockles,
Limpets and solens, mussels and pinnas;
Periwinkles too, from Mitylene take;
Let us have two sprats, and mullet, ling,
And conger-eel, and perch, and black fish.
But Agiastos, and Dercylus, in his Argolici, call the strabeli ἀστράβηλοι; speaking of them as suitable to play upon like a trumpet.
[[145]] 33. But you may find cockles spoken of both in the masculine and feminine gender. Aristophanes says, in his Babylonians—
They all gaped on each other, and were like
To cockles (κόγχαι) roasted on the coals.
And Teleclides, in his Hesiodi, says, "Open a cockle (κόγχη);" and Sophron, in his Actresses, says—
And then the cockles (κόγχαι) as at one command
All yawned on us, and each display'd its flesh.
But Æschylus uses the word κόγχος in the masculine gender, in his Glaucus Pontius, and says—
Cockles (κόγχοι), muscles, oysters.