The histories of Herodotus;

428 HERODOTUS—BOOK VII, POLYMNIA [189-193
this fell upon the barbarians as they rode at anchor, I can not
undertake to say; however, the Athenians say that Boreas,
having assisted them before, then also produced this effect;
and on their return they erected a temple to Boreas near the
river Ilissus. In this disaster those who give the lowest account
say that not fewer than four hundred ships perished,
and innumerable lives, and an infinite quantity of treasure;
so that this wreck of the fleet proved a source of great profit
to Aminocles, son of Cretinus, a Magnesian, who possessed
land about Sepias; he some time afterward picked up many
golden cups that had been driven ashore, and many silver
ones ; he also found treasures belonging to the Persians, and
gained an unspeakable quantity of other golden articles. He
then, though in other respects unfortunate, became very rich
by what he found; for a sad calamity, which occasioned the
death of his son, gave him great affliction. The provision
ships and other vessels destroyed were beyond number; so
that the commanders of the naval force, fearing lest the Thessalians
should attack them in their shattered condition, threw
up a high rampart from the wrecks ; for the storm lasted three
days. But at length the magi, having sacrificed victims, and
endeavoured to charm the winds by incantations, and, moreover,
having offered sacrifices to Thetis and the Nereids, laid
the storm on the fourth day; or perhaps it abated of its own
accord. They sacrificed to Thetis, having heard from the
Ionians the story that she had been carried off from this country
by Peleus, and that all the coast of Sepias belonged to
her and the other Nereids. Accordingly, the wind was lulled
on the fourth day. The scouts on the heights of Euboea, running
down on the second day after the storm first began,
acquainted the Greeks with all that had occurred with respect
to the wreck of the fleet. They, when they heard it, having
offered up vows and poured out libations to Neptune the Deliverer,
immediately hastened back to Artemisium, hoping that
there would be only some few ships to oppose them. Thus
they coming there a second time took up their station at Artemisium;
and from that time to the present have given to
Neptune the surname of the Deliverer.
The barbarians, when the wind had lulled, and the waves
had subsided, having hauled down their ships, sailed along
the continent ; and having doubled the promontory of Magnesia,
stood directly into the bay leading to Pagasae. There
is a spot in this bay of Magnesia where it is said Hercules
was abandoned by Jason and his companions, when he had
been sent from the Argo for water, as they were sailing to