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the historian, tells us that the Epistle of Stratonicus was 

 written (&quot; Athenaeus,&quot; iv. p. 136). Therefore Archestratus, 

 Diodorus, Aspendius, and Stratonicus, an eminent harpist, 

 were contemporaries, and so they were with Aristotle and 

 Demosthenes ; and this conjecture is confirmed by many 

 passages in Athenaeus, where Stratonicus is reported to have 

 been alive with those persons whom Demosthenes mentions 

 in his orations. Aristotle, therefore, may have used this 

 work of Archestratus in that part of his Natural History 

 which treats of the nature of fishes. 1 



The writings of physicians who prescribed the food, 

 both of sick and well, have handed down similar and much 

 more extensive observations on the animals and fishes which 

 were brought to the tables of the Greeks. Of this kind 

 Athenseus has given many passages from Dorio, and Di- 

 plulus of Siplmus. Oribasius has made a long extract from 

 the work of Xenocrates, on the aquatic animals used in 

 food, which I purpose some day to publish with Xenocrates, 

 if my life should be spared long enough. 



1 To the end of this Essay are appended fragments of Archestratus, 

 on the fishes of Sicily, amounting to 270 lines of heroic verse, together 

 with notea, by the author of the Essay. 



