He then received the caviar from a sturgeon
Bred in the mighty Danube, dish much prized,
Half-fresh, half-pickled, by the wandering Scythians.

And the same man includes the Mendesian in his list—

A slightly salt Mendesian in season,
And mullet roasted on the glowing embers.

And all those who have tried, know that these dishes are by far more delicate and agreeable than the vegetables and figs which you make such a fuss about. Tell us now also, whether the word τάριχος is used in the masculine gender by the Attic writers; for we know it is by Epicharmus.

89. And while Ulpian was thinking this over with himself, Myrtilus, anticipating him, said,—Cratinus, in his Dionysalexander, has—

I will my basket fill with Pontic pickles,

(where he uses τάριχοι as masculine;) and Plato, in his Jupiter Illtreated, says—

[[197]] All that I have amounts to this,
And I shall lose my pickled fish (ταρίχους).

And Aristophanes says, in his Daitaleis—

I'm not ashamed to wash this fine salt-fish (τὸν τάριχον τουτονὶ),
From all the evils which I know he has.