ysichthon, the son of Myrmidon, being a man
perfectly insatiable in respect of food, was called AEthon. Also Polemo,
in the first book of his 'Treatise addressed to Timaeus,' says that among
the Sicilians there was a temple consecrated to gluttony, and an image
of Demeter Sito; near which also there was a statue of Himalis, as there
is at Delphi one of Hermuchus, and as at Scolum in Boeotia there are
statues of Megalartus and Megalomazus.

THE LOVE OF ANIMALS FOR MAN

From the 'Deipnosophistae'

And even dumb animals have fallen in love with men; for there was a cock
who took a fancy to a man of the name of Secundus, a cupbearer of the
king; and the cock was nicknamed "the Centaur." This Secundus was a
slave of Nicomedes, the king of Bithynia; as Nicander informs us in the
sixth book of his essay on 'The Revolutions of Fortune.' And at AEgium, a
goose took a fancy to a boy; as Clearchus relates in the first book of
his 'Amatory Anecdotes.' And Theophrastus, in his essay 'On Love,' says
that the name of this boy was Amphilochus, and that he was a native of
Olenus. And Hermeas the son of Hermodorus, who was a Samian by birth,
says that a goose also took a fancy to Lacydes the philosopher. And in
Leucadia (according to a story told by Clearchus), a peacock fell so in
love with a maiden there that when she died, the bird died too. There is
a story also that at Iasus a dolphin took a fancy to a boy, and this
story is told by Duris, in the ninth book of his 'History'; and the
subject of that book is the history of Alexander, and the historian's
words are these:--

"He likewise sent for the boy from Iasus. For near Iasus there was a boy
whose name was Dionysius, and he once, when leaving the palaestra with
the rest of the boys, went down to the sea and bathed; and a dolphin
came forward out of the deep water to meet him, and taking him on his
back, swam away with him a considerable distance into the open sea, and
then brought him back again to land."

The dolphin is in fact an animal which is very fond of men, and very
intelligent, and one very susceptible of gratitude. Accordingly,
Phylarchus, in his twelfth book, says:--

"Coiranus the Milesian, when he saw some fishermen who had caught a
dolphin in a net, and who were about to cut it up, gave them some money
and bought the fish, and took it down and put it back in the sea again.
And after this it happened to him to be shipwrecked near Myconos, and
while every one e