Ἔγχελυν Βοιωτίαν:
but he uses the nominative case in his Daitaleis—
And smooth too ὥσπερ ἔγχελυς.
And Cratinus, in his Pluti, says—
The tunny, orphus, grayling, eel, and sea-dog.
But the Attic writers do not form the cases in the plural number as Homer does. Aristophanes says, in his Knights—
For you have fared like men who're hunting eels (ἐγχέλεις);
and, in his second edition of the Clouds, he says—
Imitating my images of the eels (ἐγχελέων);
and in his Wasps we find the dative case—