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The barbarians, when the wind lulled and the sea grew smooth, drew
their ships down to the water, and proceeded to coast along the
mainland. Having then rounded the extreme point of Magnesia, they
sailed straight into the bay that runs up to Pagasae. There is a
place in this bay, belonging to Magnesia, where Hercules is said to
have been put ashore to fetch water by Jason and his companions; who
then deserted him and went on their way to Aea in Colchis, on board
the ship Argo, in quest of the golden fleece. From the circumstance
that they intended, after watering their vessel at this place, to quit
the shore and launch forth into the deep, it received the name of
Aphetae. Here then it was that the fleet of Xerxes came to an anchor.
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