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Though enriched with all this booty, with these slaves, with this silver plate, and
these robes, he was still no more diligent than before in equipping the fleet, in
recalling and provisioning the troops; though that would not only have tended to the
safety of the province, but might have been even profitable to himself. For in the
height of summer, when all other praetors have been accustomed to visit all the
province, and to travel about, or to sail about,—at a time when there was
such fear of and such danger from the pirates; at that time he was not content, for
the purpose of his luxury and lust, with his own kingly palace which had belonged to
king Hiero, and which the praetors are in the habit of using. He ordered, as I have
stated already, tents, such as he was wont to use at the summer season, erected of
fine linen curtains, to be pitched on the seashore; on that part of the shore which
is within the island of Syracuse,
behind the fountain of Arethusa; close to the entrance and mouth of the harbour, in
a very pleasant situation, and one far enough removed from overlookers.
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