κ1432Κεστρεῖς
mullets
They used to call them "fasting" and gaping and hungry; for these fish [are] gluttonous. Of all the fish that eat each other, it is the only one that abstains [sc. from eating flesh]. Instead it eats mud, according to…
Κεστρεῖς· νήστις ἐκάλουν καὶ κεχηνότας καὶ πεινῶντας· λαίμαργοι γὰρ οὗτοι οἱ ἰχθύες. οὗτος γὰρ πάντων τῶν ἰχθύων ἀλληλοφαγούντων μόνος ἀπέχεται. νέμεται δὲ ἰλύν, ὡς Ἀριστοτέλης ἐν…