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Now when they were engaged in this count, there was in the fleet one Scyllias, a man of +Scione [23.55,39.95] (Perseus) Scione; he was the best diver of the time, and in the shipwreck at +Pilion (mountain range), Nomos Magnisias, Thessaly, Greece, Europe Pelion he had saved for the Persians much of their possessions and gotten much for himself in addition; this Scyllias had before now, it would seem, intended to desert to the Greeks, but he never had had so fair an occasion as now.
Now when they were engaged in this count, there was in the fleet one Scyllias, a man of +Scione [23.55,39.95] (Perseus) Scione; he was the best diver of the time, and in the shipwreck at +Pilion (mountain range), Nomos Magnisias, Thessaly, Greece, Europe Pelion he had saved for the Persians much of their possessions and gotten much for himself in addition; this Scyllias had before now, it would seem, intended to desert to the Greeks, but he never had had so fair an occasion as now.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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