They say then that Apollo fell in love with her and endeavoured to ravish her; and that she having crossed over to Miletus at the time of some festival of Diana, when the endeavour was about to be made to carry her off, being afraid of such an attempt being made, and being on her guard, entreated Pompilus, who was a seafaring man and a friend of her father, to conduct her safe back again to her own country, saying this,— O Pompilus, to whose wise breast are known The rapid depths of the hoarse roaring sea, Show that your mind doth recollect my sire, Who was your friend, and save his daughter now. And they say that he led her down to the shore, and conducted her safely across the sea: and that Apollo appeared and carried off the maiden, and sunk the ship with stones, and metamorphosed Pompilus into a fish of the same name, and that he made The Pompilus an everlasting slave Of ships that swiftly pass along the sea. 20. But Theocritus the Syracusan, in his poem entitled Berenice, calls the fish which is called leucus the sacred fish, speaking thus— And if a mortal seeks the gods with prayer For a successful hunt, or plenteous gold, A man who lives by the sea, whose nets he makes His ploughs to raise his crops; then let him come, And just at nightfall sacrifice with prayer To this same goddess the most sacred fish, Which men call leucus, (loveliest he of fish,) Then let him bend his nets; and soon he shall Draw them back from the waters full of prey. But Dionysius, who was surnamed the Iambic, in his treatise on Dialects, writes thus—"We have heard accordingly an Eretrian fisherman, and many other fishermen, too, of other countries, call the pompilus the sacred fish. Now the pompilus is a sea fish, and is very commonly seen around ships, being something like the tunny called pelamys. However, some one spoken of by the poet catches this fish;— Sitting upon a high projecting rock He caught the sacred fish. Unless, indeed, there be any other kind which is likewise called the sacred fish. But Callimachus in his Galatea calls the chrysophrys the sacred fish, where he says— Or shall I rather say the gold-brow'd fish, That sacred fish, or perch, or all the rest Which swim beneath the vast unfathom'd sea. But in his Epigrams the same poet says— The sacred sacred hyca. But some understand by the term sacred fish, one let go and dedicated to the god, just as people give the same name to a consecrated ox. But others consider that sacred is here only equivalent to great, as Homer speaks of The sacred might of Alcinous. And some think that it is only called ἰερὸϛ as ἱέμενοϛ πρὸϛ τὸν ῥοῦν (going down stream)."