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Furthermore, many of the Greeks have temples and altars to Artemis DictynnaAs though Artemis of the Net; see Callimachus, Hymn iii. 198. and Apollo Delphinios; and that place which the god had chosen for himself the poetHomer, Hymn to Apollo, iii. 393 ff. (as restored by van Herwerden). For Delphinian Apollo see lines 495 f. says was settled by Cretans under the guidance of a dolphin. It was not, however, the god who changed his shape and swam in front of the expedition, as tellers of tales relate; instead, he sent a dolphin to guide the men and bring them to Cirrha.The port of Delphi. They also relate that Soteles and Dionysius, the men sent by Ptolemy Soter Cf. Mor. 361 f; Tacitus, Histories, iv. 83-84. to Sinope to bring back Serapis, were driven against their will by a violent wind out of their course beyond Malea, with the Peloponnesus on their right. When they were lost and discouraged, a dolphin appeared by the prow and, as it were, invited them to follow and led them into such parts as had safe roadsteads with but a gentle swell until, by conducting and escorting the vessel in this manner, it brought them to Cirrha. Whence it carne about that when they had offered thanksgiving for their safe landing, they carne to see that of the two statues they should take away the one of Pluto, but should merely take an impress of that of Persephone and leave it behind.That is, in Sinope.