And when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him; intending after Easter to bring him forth to the people.

But shortly afterwards a hurricane came down on us off the land--a north-easter, as it is called.

And docking at Syracuse [i.e., a town on the eastern shore of Sicily], we stayed there three days.

And as the harbour was not a good one in which to be for the winter, the greater number of them were for going out to sea, in order, if possible, to put in for the winter at Phoenix, a harbour of Crete, looking to the north-east and south-east.