1222 to them; for when the storm and the rain together came upon them as they sailed, being then off the “Hollows” of Euboea, 1223 they were borne by the wind not knowing by what way they were carried, and were cast away upon the rocks. And all this was being brought about by God in order that the Persian force might be made more equal to that of the Hellenes and might not be by very much the larger. 14.