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94. μορμύρος. τροφιμώτατος, ὥς φησιν Ἱκέσιος. Ἐπίχαρμος δ᾽ ἐν Ἥβας γάμῳ μύρμας αὐτοὺς ὀνομάζει, εἰ μὴ διάφοροι τὴν φύσιν εἰσίν. γράφει δ᾽ οὕτως

καὶ χελιδόνες τε μύρμαι θ᾽, οἵ τε κολιᾶν μέζονες
ἐντί.
Δωρίων δ᾽ ἐν τῷ περὶ ἰχθύας μορμύλους αὐτοὺς καλεῖ. Λυγκεὺς δ᾽ ὁ Σάμιος ἐν τῇ ὀψωνητικῇ τέχνῃ, ἣν προσεφώνησέ τινι τῶν ἑταίρων δυσώνῃ, φησίν ‘ οὐκ ἄχρηστον δὲ πρὸς τοὺς ἀτενίζοντας καὶ μὴ συγκαθιέντας τῇ τιμῇ καὶ τὸ κακῶς λέγειν παρεστηκότα τοὺς ἰχθύας, ἐπαγόμενον Ἀρχέστρατον τὸν γράψαντα τὴν Ἡδυπάθειαν ἢ τῶν ἄλλων τινὰ ποιητῶν καὶ λέγοντα τὸ μέτρον

μόρμυρος αἰγιαλεὺς κακὸς ἰχθὺς οὐδὲ ποτ᾽ ἐσθλός.
καὶ ‘ τὴν ἀμίαν ὠνοῦ φθινοπώρου,’ νῦν δ᾽ ἐστὶν ἔαρ. καί:

κεστρέα τὸν θαυμαστὸν ὅταν χειμὼν ἀφίκηται,
νῦν δ᾽ ἐστὶ θέρος: καὶ πολλὰ τῶν τοιούτων, [p. 410] ἀποσοβήσεις γὰρ πολλοὺς τῶν ὠνουμένων καὶ προσεστηκότων τοῦτο δὲ ποιῶν ἀναγκάσεις τὸ σοὶ δοκοῦν λαβεῖν αὐτόν.’

Athenaeus. The Deipnosophists. with an English Translation by. Charles Burton Gulick. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1927. 1.

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