[Footnote 12: Or even in three days, since they anchored the
first evening in the neighboring isle of Tenedos: the second
day they sailed to Lesbon the third to the promontory of
Euboea, and on the fourth they reached Argos, (Homer, Odyss.
P. 130 - 183. Wood's Essay on Homer, p. 40 - 46.) A pirate
sailed from the Hellespont to the seaport of Sparta in three
days, (Xenophon. Hellen. l. ii. c. l.)]