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Those documents remain at Miletus, and will remain as long as that city lasts. For the Milesian
people had built ten ships by command of Lucius Marcus out of the taxes imposed by
the Roman people, as the other cities of Asia had done, each in proportion to its amount of taxation Wherefore
they entered on their public records, that one of the ten had been lost, not by the
sudden attack of pirates, but by the robbery of a lieutenant,—not by the
violence of a storm, but by this horrible tempest which fell upon the allies.
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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