'Tis when the dogstar rises in the sky
That you should eat the phagrus; specially
If you in Delos or Eretria are,
Or other favouring harbours of the sea;
But, if you can, purchase his head alone,
And tail; and bring no more within your doors.
Strattis also mentions the phagrus in his Lemnomeda—
Eating a number of large phagri.
And in his Philoctetes he says—
Then, going to the market, they will buy
A great abundance of large phagri, and
Slices of tender round Copaic eel.
There is also a kind of stone called the phagrus. For the whetstone is called so among the Cretans, as Simmias testifies.
134. There is also the channa. Epicharmus, in his Hebe's Wedding, says—
The channa, with large mouth, and then the cod,
With deep and spacious belly.
Numenius, in his Art of Fishing, says—
The channas and the eel, and pitinus,
Who only roams by night.