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While all this was going on, in the meantime Cleomenes had already arrived at
Elorum, already he had hastened on land from the ship, and had left the quadrireme
tossing about in the surf. The rest of the captains of ships, when the
commander-in-chief had landed, as they had no possible means either of resisting or
of escaping by sea, ran their ships ashore at Elorum, and followed Cleomenes. Then
Heracleo, the captain of the pirates, being suddenly victorious, beyond all his
hopes, not through any valour of his own, but owing to the avarice and worthlessness
of Verres, as soon as evening came on, ordered a most beautiful fleet belonging to
the Roman people, having been driven on shore and abandoned, to be set fire to and
burnt.
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