Despise not thou the fat Bœotian eel,
Nor grayling, nor the entrails of the tunny.
And Strattis, in his Atalanta, says—
Next buy the entrails of a tunny, and
Some pettitoes of pigs, to cost a drachma.
And the same poet says in his Macedonians—
And the sweet entrails of the tunny fish.
And Eriphus says in his Melibœa—
These things poor men cannot afford to buy,
The entrails of the tunny or the head
Of greedy pike, or conger, or cuttle-fish,
Which I don't think the gods above despise.
But when Theopompus, in his Callæschrus, says,
The ὑπογάστριον of fish, O Ceres,
we must take notice that the writers of his time apply the term ὑπογάστριον to fish, but very seldom to pigs or other animals; but it is uncertain what animals Antiphanes is speaking of, when he makes use of the term ὑπογάστριον in his Ponticus, where he says—