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133. φάγρος . Σπεύσιππος ἐν δευτέρῳ Ὁμοίων παραπλήσιά φησιν εἶναι φάγρον, ἐρυθρῖνον, ἥπατον. ἐμνημόνευσε δ᾽ αὐτοῦ καὶ Νουμήνιος ἐν τοῖς προκειμένοις. Ἀριστοτέλης δὲ σαρκοφάγον φησὶν αὐτῶν εἶναι καὶ μονήρη καρδίαν τε ἔχειν τρίγωνον ἀκμάζειν τε ἔαρος. Ἐπίχαρμος δ᾽ ἐν Ἥβας γάμῳ φησὶν

ἀόνες φάγροι τε καὶ λάβρακες.
μνημονεύει δ᾽ αὐτῶν καὶ Μεταγένης ἐν Θουριοπέρσαις. Ἀμειψίας δ᾽ ἐν Κόννῳ:

ὀρφῷσι σελαχίοις τε καὶ φάγροις βοράν.
Ἱκέσιος δέ φησι: ‘ φάγροι καὶ χρόμις καὶ ἀνθίας καὶ ἀκαρνᾶνες καὶ ὀρφοὶ καὶ συνόδοντες καὶ συναγρίδες τῷ μὲν γένει παραπλήσιοι ὑπάρχουσιν γλυκεῖς τε γὰρ καὶ παραστύφοντες καὶ τρόφιμοι: κατὰ λόγον δὲ καὶ δυσέκκριτοι. τροφιμώτεροι δ᾽ αὐτῶν οἱ σαρκώδεις καὶ γεωδέστεροι ἐλάττονά τε πιμελὴν ἔχοντες.’ Ἀρχέστρατος δέ φησι ‘Σειρίου ἀντέλλοντος’ δεῖν τὸν φάγρον ἐσθίειν [p. 474]

Δήλῳ τ᾽ Εἰρετρίᾳ τε κατ᾽ εὐλιμένους ἁλὸς οἴκους.
τὴν κεφαλὴν δ᾽ αὐτοῦ μόνον ὠνοῦ καὶ μετ᾽ ἐκείνης
οὐραῖον τὰ δὲ λοιπὰ δόμον, φίλε, μηδ᾽ ἐσενέγκῃς.
μνημονεύει τοῦ φάγρου καὶ Στράττις ἐν Λημνομέδᾳ:

πολλοὺς ἥδη μεγάλους τε φάγρους ἐγκάψας.
καὶ ἐν Φιλοκτήτῃ:

κᾆτ᾽ εἰς ἀγορὰν ἐλθόντες ἁδροὺς
ὀψωνοῦσιν μεγάλους τε φάγρους
καὶ Κωπᾴδων ἁπαλῶν τεμάχη
στρογγυλοπλεύρων.
ἐστὶ δὲ καὶ γένος λίθου φάγρος. ἡ γὰρ ἀκόνη κατὰ Κρῆτας φάγρος, ὥς φησι Σιμίας.

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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