Fresh came back from the old country did some Octopus fishing in Salaminia a short ferry boat ride across from the mainland. if anybody has those nice nymph / shield bronzes please share as I unfortunately didnt stumble across the type when i was there
Octopi, octopodes, but better just "octopuses". And I guess it's not really "fishing", but I'm pretty sure "octopusing" has never been a word. That's not important, though. The important thing is what did you catch? (And, perhaps, how did you prepare it?)
hah I thought about it but I didnt want to write Octopus(ing)?is it? so I just wrote as it is in Greek,, but we did catch quite a few because there are many babies this time of year. overall just kept one medium sized guy, I caught two and the same one like 3 times. threw them back, it was good fun...my cousin caught a 10 kilo one few weeks ago though!. it took some major help to reel it in.
And what did he do with it when it got him, er, when he got it? I make it a policy never to wrestle with something that has four times as many arms as I do.
One of my favorite snacks , Calamares a la Romana with Lemon juice. One of my favourite coins an octopussy under crab awsome Dolphins !
I used to have a couple of crab traps when I was a kid ... man, every now and then I'd pull-up the trap and there'd be a big ol' octopus inside!! (amazing how they can ooze themselves through small openings!!) Syracuse, AR Litra
nymph & octopus Sicily, Syracuse. Dionysios I 390 BCE Æ tetras, 14 mm, 1.8 gm Obv: head of nymph facing slightly left, wearing necklace Rev: octopus Ref: CNS 29; SNG ANS 385 female head (nymph?) & hippocamp & octopus Sicily, Syracuse. Second Democracy c. 425 BCE Æ tetras, 13 mm, 1.9 gm Obv: Female head right; XXX before Rev: Hippocamp right, octopus below Ref: CNS 30; SNG ANS 1382
