And in
Phoenicia, says Poseidonius,
on the occasion of an earthquake, a city situated above
Sidon was swallowed up, and nearly two-thirds of
Sidon itself was engulfed too, but not all at once, so that no considerable destruction of human life took place. The same operation of nature
extended also over the whole of Syria, but with rather moderate force; and it also passed over to certain islands, both the
Cyclades and
Euboea,
with the result that the fountains of Arethusa (a spring in
Chalcis) were stopped up,
though after many days they gushed up at another mouth, and the island did not cease from being shaken in some part or other until a chasm
in the earth opened in the
Lelantine Plain and vomited forth a river of fiery lava.
