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For the granaries were pillaged and their
contents scattered and strewn all about the streets
and alleys. You and your companions, in great
alarm, suddenly embarked, and as you looked back
at night towards the town you saw the flames of the
merchant ships, which the soldiers (not wishing to
follow) had set on fire. Finally, when your party
had been deserted by the Rhodian fleet you realized
that the prophecy had been fulfilled.
Cicero: De Senectute De Amicitia De Divinatione. With An English Translation. William Armistead Falconer. Cambridge. Harvard University Press; Cambridge, Mass., London, England. 1923.
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