Note 322 — Chapter VII · THEOCRITUS—THE GREEK EPIGRAMMATISTS

Such in Fowler’s Translation, V. 48, is the rendering of κύων, which is quite wrong for two reasons. First, κύων is almost certainly our dog-fish or its cousin. Cf. Aristotle, N. H., VI. 118. Second, the salmon is not found in Greek waters, and so could not be fished for from the Acropolis. Cf. infra, Chapter XIII.