τόν τε πολυτίματον ἔλοπ᾽, ὁ δ᾽ αὐτὸς χαλκὸς ὤνιος,Δωρίων δ᾽ ἐν τῷ περὶ ἰχθύων διαφέρειν φησὶν ἀνθίαν καὶ κάλλιχθυν, ἔτι τε καὶ καλλιώνυμον καὶ ἔλοπα.
ἕνα μόνον, καὶ κῆνον ὁ Ζεὺς ἔλαβε κἠκελήσατο
κατθέμειν αὐτῷ τέ οἱ καὶ τᾷ δάμαρτι θωτέρω.
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Ἀριστοτέλης δ᾽ ἐν τῷ περὶ ζῴων ἠθῶν ῾620
b 33' '‘ὅπου ἂν ἀνθίας ᾖ, φησίν, οὐκ ἐστὶν θηρίον:
ᾧ σημείῳ χρώμενοι οἱ σπογγιεῖς κατακολυμβῶσι καλοῦντες αὐτὸν ἱερὸν ἰχθύν.' μνημονεύει δ᾽ αὐτοῦ καὶ
Δωρίων ἐν τῷ περὶ ἰχθύων: ‘τὸν δ᾽ ἀνθίαν τινὲς
καὶ κάλλιχθυν καλοῦσιν, ἔτι δὲ καλλιώνυμον καὶ ἔλοπα.'
Ἱκέσιος δ᾽ ἐν τοῖς περὶ ὕλης ὑπὸ μέν τινων λύκον,
ὑπὸ δ᾽ ἄλλων καλλιώνυμον: εἶναι δ᾽ αὐτὸν χονδρώδη
καὶ εὔχυλον καὶ εὐέκκριτον, οὐκ εὐστόμαχον δέ. Ἀριστοτέλης ῾p. 307 R' 'δὲ καὶ καρχαρόδοντα εἶναι τὸν
κάλλιχθυν σαρκοφάγον τε καὶ συναγελαζόμενον. Ἐπίχαρμος δ᾽ ἐν Μούσαις τὸν μὲν ἔλοπα καταριθμεῖται,
τὸν δὲ κάλλιχθυν ἢ καλλιώνυμον ὡς τὸν αὐτὸν ὄντα
σεσίγηκεν: λέγει δὲ περὶ τοῦ ἔλοπος οὕτως ῾p. 238 L':'
Athenaeus. Deipnosophistae. Kaibel. In Aedibus B.G. Teubneri. Lipsiae. 1887.
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