Every night for a long time back, under pretence of marauding, in order to have a means of opening the gates, they had been used, with the consent of the officer in command, to carry by night a sculling boat upon a cart along the ditch to the sea, and so to sail out, bringing it back again before day upon the cart, and taking it within the wall through the gates, in order, as they pretended, to baffle the Athenian blockade at Minoa, there being no boat to be seen in the harbour.
eta eguna zabaldu aurretik harresi barrura sartzen zuten gurdian, Minoako atenastarrek kontura ez zitezen, portuan ez baitzen ontzirik bistan ageri.