The Cretans at the sacrifice

Explanation

Agamemnon, they say, driven by storm to Crete, went up to the Polyrrhenium and was performing a sacrifice. Meanwhile his prisoners burned the ships; word of this being brought to him in the middle of the sacrifice, he is said to have left the burning offering, and gone in disturbance to the sea, and finding only one ship with difficulty, to have put off in her, with many curses on the inhabitants of the country. Whence, if ever a sacrifice was disturbed, it used to be called "Cretan."