So we sailed away from Troy and struck a bee line for Samothrace, and the next day on to Neapolis.

So not only is there a danger this line of business of ours [will] come into disrepute, but also the temple of the great goddess Artemis [will] be regarded as nothing--and [she] is about to be brought down even from her grandeur, [she] whom the whole [of] Asia and the [entire] world worship!"

When we had torn ourselves away from them, we struck a bee line for Cos, and the next day on to Rhodes, and from there to Patara.

they threw the line and sounded twenty fathom water: a little further they sounded again, and came to fifteen fathom: