The chalcides, the sea-pig too,
The sea-hawk, and the fat sea-dog.
But Dorion calls it the chalcidice. And Numenius says,—
But you would thus harpoon, in the same way,
That chalcis and the little tiny sprat.
[[518]] But the χαλκεὺς is different from the χαλκὶς; and the χαλκεὺς is mentioned by Heraclides, in his Cookery Book; and by Euthydemus, in his book on Cured Fish, who says that they are bred in the country of the Cyzicenes, being a round and circular fish.
But the thrissa is mentioned by Aristotle in his book on Animals and Fishes, in these words—"The following are stationary fish: the thrissa, the encrasicholus, the membras anchovy, the coracinus, the erythrinus, and the trichis." And Eupolis mentions the trichis in his Flatterers;—
He was a stingy man, who once in his life
Before the war did buy some trichides;
But in the Samian war, a ha'p'orth of meat.
And Aristophanes, in his Knights, says—
If trichides were to be a penny a hundred.
But Dorion, in his treatise on Fishes, speaks also of the river Thrissa; and calls the trichis trichias. Nicochares, in his Lemnian Women, says—
The trichias, and the premas tunny too,
Placed in enormous quantities for supper.