καταλαμβάνουσι τὰ πλεῖστα τοῖς ἑταίροις προειργασμένα
From LSJ
ὁ ναύτης ὁ ἐν τῇ νηῒ μένων βούλεται τοὺς τέτταρας φίλους ἰδεῖν → the sailor staying on the ship wants to see his four friends
English > Greek (Woodhouse Quotes Reversed)
they find most of the preliminaries already compleled by their partisans