Histories

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.