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The fleet then, as I said, on leaving Therma, sailed to the
Magnesian territory, and there occupied the strip of coast between the
city of Casthanaea and Cape Sepias. The ships of the first row were
moored to the land, while the remainder swung at anchor further off.
The beach extended but a very little way, so that they had to anchor
off the shore, row upon row, eight deep. In this manner they passed
the night. But at dawn of day calm and stillness gave place to a
raging sea, and a violent storm, which fell upon them with a strong
gale from the east - a wind which the people in those parts call
Hellespontias. Such of them as perceived the wind rising, and were
so moored as to allow of it, forestalled the tempest by dragging their
ships up on the beach, and in this way saved both themselves and their
vessels. But the ships which the storm caught out at sea were driven
ashore, some of them near the place called Ipni, or "The Ovens,"
at the foot of Pelion; others on the strand itself; others again
about Cape Sepias; while a portion were dashed to pieces near the
cities of Meliboea and Casthanaea. There was no resisting the tempest.
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