8. During this time, while these were numbering their ships, it happened thus:-there was in that camp a man of Skione named Skyllias, as a diver the best of all the men of that time, who also in the shipwreck which took place by Pelion had saved for the Persians many of their goods and many of them also he had acquired for himself:
8. Orain, bada, persiarrek untziak zenbatzen ziharduten bitartean, Szylias Szionekoa zegoen kanpamenduan, munduko urpekaririk onena orduan (gizon honek, Pelio parean gertatu zen hondoratze haren ostean, altxor ugari atereak zituen persiarrentzat, nahiz eta berarentzat ere beste hainbestez jabetu) eta, antza denez, heleniarrengana pasatzeko asmoa zuen aspalditik, baina ordurarte ez zuen izan horretarako aukerarik.