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, the harbour being, incommodious, to winter in, the more part, advised to put to sea from thence, if by any means they might be able to reach Phoenix, to winter, which was a harbour of Crete, looking north-east and south-east.