OPPIAN 



The epithet tepos is used of a fish in Horn. //. xvi. 

 407 COS ore Tts </)ws | irkrpij ewi Trpo/SXiJTi. Kadrjfi€vo<; 



lepOV Ix^dvV I CK TTOVTOIO OvfKt^i All'W Kol rfVOTTI, ^uXkM 



(sc. e'AKr;), where ace. to the schol. some interpreted 

 TTo/xTTiAos, some KaXXixOvs, while others took the 

 epithet in a general sense (^averov kuI €VTpa(f)rj, ws lepbv 

 l3ovv Xeyofiev tov dvetixevov). From Athen. 282 e sq. 

 it seems tliat lepds was used of several fishes besides 

 the Anthias (Dolphin, Pilot-fish, GUthead, etc.) and, 

 while Athenaeus himself seems to identify Anthias 

 and Callichthys, he tells us that Dorion denied the 

 identity : Athen. 282 c p,vr]fj.ovev€L 8' avrov Kal Auypiwv 

 ev Tw TTcpl I'x^dvwv ^' TOV 8' avOtav Tives koI Ka.X\i\dvv 

 KaXoviTiv, en Sc KaXXiuivvjxov kol tXoTra ". . . . 'Apurro- 

 TiXr^S 81 Kal Kap's(ap68ovra eivai tov KdXXi)(^6vv 

 crapKO(f)dyov re Kal (Tvvay^Xa^op.ei'ov. 'ETrt^^ap/xos 8 

 ev Movcrais rhv /xev eXoira [cf. Ael. viii. 28] Kar- 

 apiOfiiiTaL, Tou 8e KdXXi\9vv rj KaXXi(ovv/xov tos tov 

 avTOV ovTtt (xecriyrjKiv. . . , Aoiptwv 8' iv toj irepl l^Ovtav 

 8ia<^ep€tv <I>i](tIv dvBiav kol KdXXix^vv, en Te Kal 

 KaXXiMVVfxov Kol IXoTra ; cf. E.M. s. dvOna (sic)' 

 e'Sos i)(^6vos' dvOlav Tives Kal KdXXi\6vv KaXoxkri Kai 

 KaXXtwvvfiov Kal eXXoTra ; Suid. s. Upov i^^wv . . . 



OV TOV KdXXlxdvV rj TOV TTOpTTlXoi', ois TlVeS. 



Cnllionymus. — The Callionymus is almost certainly 

 Uranoscopos scaber, the Hemerocoetes or Nycteris of 

 Oppian (see note on H. ii. 199 ff)- It is an ugly fish 

 and was only euphemistically called KaXXiuivvp-os : cf. 

 E.M. s. dXea-ovpios' et'Sos ('x^i'os daXa<r<TLOV ov Ttv€S 

 KaT ev(f>rjiJ.L(Tfxov KaXXnovvfjiov KaXov(rLV ktX. ; Hesych. 

 s. KaXXiMvvfjLos and s. dXea-ovpiov. From its habit of 

 hiding in the sand it was also called i/'a/x/jtoSt'Tr;s or 

 Sand-diver, Hesych. .y. \pa/xfjLo8vTi]r ixdv<i, ov Kal 

 KaXXim'Vjxov 6vop.d^ov(riv. The similarity of name 



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