Εven the name which the Hellene gave it with his painted language, when he called it "thalassa", is as if he is making you hear its cool whistle and its echoes, and you fancy that in these are tens of thousands of voices, from the innumerable living things which seethes like a white flower on the valorous waves of the ocean and collects like jasmin on the headlands and on the sandy shores. (...) (ΑΠΟ ΤΗΝ ΠΑΡΟΥΣΙΑΣΗ ΤΗΣ ΕΚΔΟΣΗΣ