59. The encrasicholi are also mentioned by Aristotle as fish of small size, in his treatise on What relates to Animals. But Dorion, in his book on Fishes, speaks of the encrasicholi among those which are best boiled, speaking in the following terms—"One ought to boil the encrasicholi, and the iopes, and the atherinæ, and the tench, and the smaller mullets, and the cuttle-fish, and the squid, and the different kinds of crab or crawfish."
60. The hepsetus, or boiled fish, is a name given to several small fish. Aristophanes, in his Anagyrus, says—
There is not one dish of hepseti.
And Archippus says in his Fishes—
An hepsetus fell in with an anchovy
And quick devour'd him.
And Eupolis, in his Goats, says—
Ye graces who do love the hepseti.
And Eubulus, in his Prosusia or Cycnus, says—
Contented if just once in each twelve days
He sees an hepsetus well boil'd in beet.
And Alexis, in his Apeglaucomenos, says—