The cuttle-fish of Abdera and the middle of Maronea.
And Aristophanes, in his Thesmophoriazusæ, says—
Has any fish or cuttle-fish been bought?
And in the Danaides he says—
Osmulia, mœnidea, and cuttle-fish.
Theopompus, in his Aphrodite, says—
. . . But eat, my friend,
This cuttle-fish, and this small polypus.
But concerning the boiling of the small polypus, Alexis, in his Wicked Woman, introduces a cook speaking as follows—
Now these three cuttle-fish I have just bought
For one small drachma. And when I've cut off
Their feelers and their fins, I then shall boil them.
And cutting up the main part of their meat
Into small dice, and rubbing in some salt,
After the guests already are sat down,
I then shall put them in the frying-pan,
And serve up hot towards the end of supper.
FISH.