Coeranus the Melesian
Phylarchus, Histories
Athenaeus of Naucratis, The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athenaeus
「3rc c. BCE」Phylarchus, “On Corianus the Milesian and a Dolphin,” fragment preserved by Athenaeus of Naucratris, in Book 13 of The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athenaeus 「Google Books」, trans. C. D. Younge (London, 1854) 967-968.
2nd c.」Athenaeus of Naucratis, “Phylarchus on Corianus the Milesian and a Dolphin,” in Book 13 of The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athenaeus 「Google Books」, trans. C. D. Younge (London, 1854) 967-968.
The dolphin is an animal which is very fond of men, and very intelligent, and one very susceptible of gratitude. Accordingly Phylarchus, in his twelfth book, says—”Corianus the Milesian, when he saw some fishermen who had caught a dolphin in a net, and who were about to cut it up, gave them some money and bought the fish, and took it down and put it back in the sea again. And after this it happened to him to be shipwrecked near Myconos, and while every one else perished, Coiranus alone was saved by a dolphin. And when, at last he died of old age in his native country, as it so happened that his funeral procession passed along the sea-shore close to Miletus, a great shoal of dolphins appeared on that day in the harbour, keeping only a very little distance from those who were attending the funeral of Coiranus, as if they also were joining in the procession and sharing in the grief.”
