and the Barbarians, seeing that shallow water had been produced, endeavoured to get by into the peninsula of Pallene, but when they had passed through two fifth-parts of the distance, and yet three-fifths remained, which they must pass through before they were within Pallene, then there came upon them a great flood-tide of the sea, higher than ever before, as the natives of the place say, though high tides come often.
Baina ibilbide haren bostetik hiru ibiliak zituztenean (eta beste hiru geratzen, beraz, Palenera iristeko), itsasgora itzel batek harrapatu zituen ustekabean, bertakoen esanetan ordurarte inoiz gertatu ez bezalakoak, nahiz eta zona hartan fenomeno hori sarritan gertatu.