Histories

So, since there was no remedy for their ills, they sent messengers to +Crete [25,35.166] (region), Greece, Europe Crete to find any Cretan or traveller there who had travelled to Libya [17,25] (nation), AfricaLibya. In their travels about the island, these came to the town of Itanus, where they met a murex fisherman named Corobius, who told them that he had once been driven off course by winds to Libya [17,25] (nation), AfricaLibya, to an island there called Platea.[*](The island now called Bomba, east of Shahhat [21.866,32.833] (inhabited place), Al Jabal al Akhdar, Libya, AfricaCyrene.)

They hired this man to come with them to +Thera [25.433,36.4] (island), Cyclades, Aegean Islands, Greece, Europe Thera; from there, just a few men were sent aboard ship to spy out the land first; guided by Corobius to the aforesaid island Platea, these left him there with provision for some months, and themselves sailed back with all speed to +Thera [25.433,36.4] (island), Cyclades, Aegean Islands, Greece, Europe Thera to bring news of the island.

But after they had been away for longer than the agreed time, and Corobius had no provisions left, a Samian ship sailing for Egypt [30,27] (nation), Africa Egypt, whose captain was Colaeus, was driven off her course to Platea, where the Samians heard the whole story from Corobius and left him provisions for a year;

they then put out to sea from the island and would have sailed to Egypt [30,27] (nation), Africa Egypt, but an easterly wind drove them from their course, and did not abate until they had passed through the Pillars of Heracles and came providentially to Tartessus.