...comrades were suffering, would go there, sword in hand; and so we dived from the ship, and he cleared the benches of your rowers. Then going to the helmsman he told him to sail a straight course to Hellas . So they set up the mast, and favoring breezes blew. They are gone from here. But I escaped death and let myself down by the anchor into the sea; and just as I was worn out, some fisherman took me ...