It would be a long story to tell of the events of long ago; but when Pasinus An unknown person. took Paros, it chanced that my
 friends had the greatest part of their fortune deposited as a pledge with my guest-friends
 there; for we thought that this island was by far the safest. When they were at their
 wits’ end and believed that their property was lost, I sailed thither by night and got
 their money out at risk of my life;