I know also that Poseidonius the Stoic speaks of a great quantity of fishes in these words: When Tryphon of Apameia, who had seized the kingdom of Syria,
was attacked near the city of Ptolemais by Sarpedon,
Demetrius's general, the latter was defeated and
forced to retreat into the interior with his troops. Tryphon's army were marching along the coast after their victory in the battle, when
suddenly a wave from the
ocean lifted itself to an extraordinary height and dashed upon the shore, engulfing all the men and drowning them beneath the waters. And when the wave receded
it left behind a huge pile of fishes among the dead bodies. The followers of Sarpedon, hearing of this disaster, came up and gloated over the bodies of their enemies,
while they also carried away an abundance of fish and offered sacrifice to
Poseidon, god of the rout, near the suburbs of the city.
