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92. Μαινίδες. ταύτας φησὶν Ἱκέσιος εὐχυλοτέρας εἶναι τῶν κωβιῶν, λείπεσθαι δὲ εὐστομίᾳ καὶ τῷ πρὸς τὴν ἔκκρισιν τῆς κοιλίας συνεργεῖν. Σπεύσιππος δ᾽ ἐν δευτέρῳ Ὁμοίων ὅμοιά φησιν εἶναι [p. 406] τῇ μαινίδι βόακας καὶ σμαρίδας, ὧν μνημονεύειν καὶ ' Ἐπίχαρμον ἐν Γᾷ καὶ Θαλάσσᾳ οὕτως:

ὅκχ᾽ ὁρῇ βῶκάς τε πολλοὺς καὶ σμαρίδας.
Ἐπαίνετος δ᾽ ἐν Ὀψαρτυτικῷ φησι: ‘ σμαρίδα, ἣν ἔνιοι καλοῦσι κυνὸς εὐναί.’ Ἀντιφάνης δ᾽ ἐν Ἀγροίκῳ ἢ Βουταλίωνι Ἑκάτης βρώματα καλεῖ τὰς μαινίδας διὰ τὴν βραχύτητα, λέγων οὕτως:

τοὺς γὰρ μεγάλους τούτους ἅπαντας νενόμικα
ἀνθρωποφάγους ἰχθῦς. β. τί φής, ὦ φίλτατε,
ἀνθρωποφάγους; πῶς; Γ. οὓς ἂν ἄνθρωπος
φάγοι
δηλονότι: ταῦτα δ᾽ ἐστὶν Ἑκάτης βρώματα,
ἅ φησιν οὗτος, μαινίδας καὶ τριγλίδας.
καλοῦνται δέ τινες καὶ λευκομαινίδες, ἃς ἔνιοι βόακας ὀνομάζουσι. Πολίοχος Κορινθιαστῇ:

ὅπως σε πείσῃ μηδὲ ]δὲ εἷς, πρὸς τῶν θεῶν,
τοὺς βόακας, ἄν ποτ᾽ ἔλθῃ, λευκομαινίδας καλεῖν.

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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