Note 460 — Chapter XIV

Akin to this we have the special prohibition—unique as far as I know—whereby priests at the temple of Leptis abstained from eating sea fish, because Poseidon was god of the sea, and owner and protector of its denizens. Plutarch, De solert. an., 35, 11. At other of his temples, e.g. in Laconia, the fate awaiting a violator of the sacred fish was that common to poachers of similar holy waters, death.