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Fishing from the Earliest Times

Note 315 — Chapter VII · THEOCRITUS—THE GREEK EPIGRAMMATISTS

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Callimachus, whom Theocritus probably knew at Alexandria, calls the “chrysophrys” sacred—

“Or shall I rather say the gold-browed fish, That sacred fish?”

See Athen., VII. 20.

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