Crossword-Solution: ELOPS 5 letters, 9 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Whatever the _Elops_, Varro and Epicharmus testify to its extortionate price, while Pliny lets us know that by many of the _cognoscenti_ its flavour was deemed to be the very best of all.

The capture of this rare and elusive fish—its usual habitat was off Pamphylia—became the occasion of great rejoicing; the crew of the successful boat were crowned with wreaths, and welcomed by the music of the flute-players.[639] It is noteworthy that the _Acipenser_ does not occur in the pages either of Varro or of Columella, while the _Elops_ does.

Anim._, 28, of the _Elops_, “it always swims with the wind and tide, not minding the erection or opening of the scales, which do not lie towards the tail, as in other fish.” [638] Athen., VII.

Thus, for instance, the wolf-fish of the river Tiber is the best that is caught between the two bridges, and the turbot of Ravenna is the most esteemed, the murena of Sicily, the elops of Rhodes; the same, too, as to the other kinds, not to go through all the items of the culinary catalogue.

Other fish have the gall upon the intestines, some at a greater, others at a less distance, as the batrachus, elops, synagris, muræna, xiphias.