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He tells him that he has made up his mind to
execute all the naval captains; that considerations of his own personal danger
required such a step. “I will spare you alone, and I will endure the blame
of all that disaster myself, and all possible reproaches for my inconsistency,
rather than act cruelly to you on the one hand, or, on the other hand, leave so many
and such important witnesses against me in safety and in life.” Cleomenes
thanks him: approves of his intention; and says that that is what must be done. But
he reminds him, of what he had forgotten, that it will not he possible for him to
put Phalargus the Centuripan, one of the naval captains, to death, because he had
been with him himself in the Centuripan quadrireme. What, then, is he to do? Shall
that man, of such a city as that, a most noble youth, be left to be a witness? At
present, says Cleomenes, for it must be so; but afterwards we will take care that it
shall be put out of his power to injure us.
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