On hearing of your philosophy, I entertained a feeling of contempt for the teachers of Athens, and left it.  The city on the Hellespont I passed by, more unmoved than any Ulysses, passing Sirens’ songs. ὡς ουδεὶς ᾽Οδυσσεύς.  The Ben. translation is “citius quam quisquam Ulysses.”  But the reason of the escape of Ulysses was not his speed, but his stopping the ears of his crew with wax and tying himself to the mast.  cf. Hom. Od. xii. 158.  The “city on the Hellespont,” is, according to the Ben. note, Constantinople; but Constantinople is more than 100 m. from the Dardanelles, and Basil could hardly write so loosely.