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For a long time there was merely desultory conversation while the feast, restricted within moderate proportions by request of Pertinax, was brought on. There were eels, for which Daphne was famous; alphests and callichthys; pompilos, a purple fish, said to have been born from sea-foam at the birth of Aphrodite; boops and bedradones; gray mullet; cuttle-fish; tunny-fish and mussels.
Both Doras and Callichthys, too, are well provided with means of defence against the enemies they may chance to meet during their terrestrial excursions; for in both kinds there are the same bony shields along the sides, securing the little travellers, as far as possible, from attack on the part of hungry piscivorous animals.
There are a great many tropical American pond-fish which share these adventurous gipsy habits of the pretty little Callichthys.
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