Στράττις γοῦν ἐν Μακεδόσιν ἐρομένου τινὸς Ἀττικοῦ ὡς ἀγνοοῦντος τὸ ὄνομα καὶ λέγοντος:

ἡ σφύραινα δ᾽ ἐστὶ τίς;

φησὶν ὁ ἕτερος:

κέστραν μὲν ὔμμες ὡττικοὶ κικλήσκετε 

Strattis, in his Macedonians, when some Athenian asks the question, as being ignorant of the name, and saying:

But what is the sphuræna?

The other replies,

You, Othenians, call it the kestra