A. Just as Seleucus sent the tiger (τὴν τίγριν) here,
Which we have seen, so we in turn ought now
To send Seleucus back a beast from here.
B. Let's send him a trigeranum;[45]
for that's
An animal not known much in those parts.
And Myrtilus said to him:—Since you interrupted us when we were making out a catalogue of women, not like the lists of Sosicrates the Phanagorite, or like the catalogue of women of Nilænetus the Samian or Abderitan (whichever was really his native country), I, digressing a little, will turn to your question, my old Phœnix. Learn, then, that Alexis, in his Pyraunus, has said τὸν τίγριν, using the word in the masculine gender; and these are his words:
Come, open quick the door; I have been here,
Though all unseen, walking some time,—a statue,
A millstone, and a seahorse, and a wall,