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O spectaculum
miserum atque acerbum! ludibrio esse urbis gloriam,
populi Romani nomen, omnium1 hominum conventum atque
multitudinem piratico myoparoni! in portu Syracusano de
classe populi Romani triumphum agere piratam, cum
praetoris inertissimi nequissimique oculos praedonum remi
respergerent!
posteaquam e portu piratae non metu aliquo adfecti sed
satietate exierunt, tum coeperunt quaerere homines causam
illius tantae calamitatis. dicere omnes et palam disputare
minime esse mirandum si remigibus militibusque dimissis,
reliquis egestate et fame perditis, praetore tot dies cum
mulierculis perpotante, tanta ignominia et calamitas esset
accepta.
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1 omnium addidi, tot Zielinski, tantum Muell., nostrorum K. Busche: hominum honestissimorum Eberh. (§107)
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