And sailing slowly for many days, and having with difficulty got abreast of Cnidus, the wind not suffering us, we sailed under the lee of Crete abreast of Salmone;

And the south wind blowing gently, supposing that they had gained their object, having weighed anchor they sailed close in shore along Crete.

And the ship being caught and driven, and not able to bring her head to the wind, letting her go we were driven before it.

and, having cast off the anchors, they left them in the sea, at the same time loosening the lashings of the rudders, and hoisting the foresail to the wind, they made for the strand.

Whence, going in a circuitous course, we arrived at Rhegium; and after one day, the wind having changed to south, on the second day we came to Puteoli,