14. Rufin. c. 5, in Vit. Patrum, p. 459. He calls it civitas
ampla valde et populosa, and reckons twelve churches. Strabo
(1. xvii. p. 1166 [p. 812, ed. Casaub.]) and Ammianus (xxii.
16) have made honourable mention of Oxyrinchus, whose
inhabitants adored a small fish in a magnificent temple.