Histories

Herodotus

Herodotus. Godley, Alfred Denis, translator. Cambridge, MA; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann, Ltd., 1920-1925 (printing).

By what means he did at last make his way to the Greeks, I cannot with exactness say. If the story is true, it is marvellous indeed, for it is said that he dove into the sea at +Aphetae [23.1167,39.1167] (Perseus) Aphetae and never rose to the surface till he came to +Artemisium [23.2417,39.0083] (Perseus) Artemisium, thus passing underneath the sea for about eighty furlongs.