Athenaeus (281 b, 395 d) mentions a poem called Κάθοδος Ἀτρειδῶν, of which nothing seems to be known elsewhere.
Athenaeus says that it was not rare to find Roman citizens possessed of 20,000 slaves.
This literary thrift will always give rank to the work of Athenaeus, poor as it is.
This passage shows the redundancy of expression which disfigures so much of Athenaeus.
That there were other Greek writers who dealt with fish and fishing and composed "halieutics" we know from Athenaeus.
