Xenophon of Ephesus, An Ephesian Tale 1.11.2 · 1.11.2
A stop at Hera's island
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Κἀκείνην μὲν τὴν ἡμέραν οὐρίῳ χρησάμενοι πνεύματι, διανύσαντες τὸν πλοῦν εἰς Σάμον κατήντησαν τὴν τῆς Ἥρας ἱερὰν νῆσον· κἀνταῦθα θύσαντες καὶ δειπνοποιησάμενοι, πολλὰ εὐξάμενοι τῆς νυκτὸς ἐπιγινομένης ἐπανήγοντο.
That day they had a fair wind, completed the passage and reached Samos, the sacred island of Hera. There they sacrificed and had dinner, and after praying for many things, as night came on, they put out to sea.
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Book 1, chapter 11. The first day at sea, on a voyage bound for Egypt.
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Samos, a day's sail from Ephesus with a fair wind, was Hera's island: Herodotus calls her temple there the greatest of all the temples he knew (Herodotus 3.60). Hera was the goddess of marriage, and the first landfall of the newly married couple is her island, where they sacrifice and pray before sailing on at nightfall.
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