ι186Ἱερὸν ἰχθῦν
sacred fish
Homer is speaking of the consecrated and self-empowered [sort], not, as some [claim], the beauty-fish or the escort-fish.
Ἱερὸν ἰχθῦν· Ὅμηρος τὸν ἄνετον καὶ αὐτεξούσιον λέγει, οὐ τὸν κάλλιχθυν ἢ τὸν πομπίλον, ὥς τινες.