There are many marvellous stories told of Pherecydes. For it is said
that he was walking along the seashore at Samos, and that seeing a
ship sailing by with a fair wind, he said that it would soon sink;
and presently it sank before his eyes. At another time he was drinking
some water which had been drawn up out of a well, and he foretold
that within three days there would be an earthquake; and there was
one.
-- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD)
-- Pherecydes, ii
