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“19. Ἀπολλώνιος δὲ ὁ ῾ Ῥόδιος ἢ Ναυκρατίτης ἐν Ναυκράτεως κτίσει τὸν Πομπίλον φησὶν ἄνθρωπον πρότερον ὄντα μεταβαλεῖν εἰς ἰχθὺν διά τινα Ἀπόλλωνος ἔρωτα: τὴν γὰρ Σαμίων πόλιν παραρρεῖν ποταμὸν Ἴμβρασον,

τῷ ῥὰ ποτ᾽ ' Ὠκυρόην νύμφην, περικαλλέα κούρην,
Χησιὰς εὐπατέρεια τέκεν φιλότητι μιγεῖσα, '
ὠκυρόην, ᾗ κάλλος ἀπείριτον ὤπασαν Ὧραι:
ταύτης οὖν ἐρασθέντα Ἀπόλλωνα ἐπιχειρῆσαι ἁρπάσαι. διαπεραιωθεῖσαν δ᾽ εἰς Μίλητον κατά τινα Ἀρτέμιδος ἑορτὴν καὶ μέλλουσαν ἁρπάζεσθαι εὐλαβηθεῖσαν Πομπίλον τινὰ θαλασσουργὸν ἄνθρωπον καθικετεῦσαι ὄντα πατρῷον φίλον, ὅπως αὐτὴν εἰς τὴν πατρίδα διασώσῃ, λέγουσαν τάδε:

πατρὸς ἐμοῖο φίλου συμφράδμονα θυμὸν ἀέξων,
Πομπίλε, δυσκελάδου δεδαὼς θοὰ βένθεα πόντου,
σῷζέ με:
καὶ τὸν εἰς τὴν ἀκτὴν διαγαγόντα αὐτὴν [p. 274] διαπεραιοῦν. ἐπιφανέντα δὲ τὸν Ἀπόλλωνα τήν τε κόρην ἁρπάσαι καὶ τὴν ναῦν ἀπολιθώσαντα τὸν Πομπίλον εἰς τὸν ὁμώνυμον ἰχθὺν μεταμορφῶσαι ποιῆσαί τε τὸν

πομπίλον ὠκυάλων νηῶν αἰανὸν ὁδουρόν.

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Athenaeus. The Deipnosophists. with an English Translation by. Charles Burton Gulick. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1927. 1.

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