Note 50 — Second Part.
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Athenaeus, Deipnosoph. bk. VIII. p. 346. d. Indeed it would seem that the Stoic Antipater of Tarsus related how a Syrian Queen Gatis was excessively fond of eating fish, and accordingly forbad anyone ἄτερ Γάτιδος (except Gatis) in the whole country to indulge in it, and from this circumstance came the name of Atergatis—the Syrian Venus!