[681] Aristophanes, and half a dozen other comedians cited by Athen., VII. 78.

[682] XV. 19.

[683] Sat., X. 317.

[684] Further details must be sought in Robinson Ellis, A Commentary on Catullus (Oxford, 1876), p. 46, and Schneider, op. cit., 69.

[685] Although these five must be reckoned in the first class everywhere, none of the five or other Mediterranean fishes can compare in taste with their northern representatives.

[686] A. de Gubernatis, Zoological Mythology (London, 1872), II. 329 ff. The latest luminary among the Solar Mythologists is L. Frobenius, Sonnenkultus, whose lengthy chapter in vol. I. on the world-wide Fish-Myth and its solar significance may be consulted by the leisurely.

[687] Cf., however, “The Story of the Deluge,” in the Catapatha Brāhmana.

[688] P. Robinson, op. cit. (p. 18), to which I owe much, here and elsewhere.

[689] Op. cit., p. xi.

[690] On Iliad, I. 206, cp. on XX. 71: διὰ τὸ δοκεῖν μανιῶν αἰτίαν εῑναι τισίν, ὡς οἶον εἰπεῖν τοῖς σεληνιαζομένοις.