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In the meantime, the Syracusans, acute and humane men, who were capable not only of
seeing what was evident, but also of conjecturing what was hidden, kept an account
every day of the pirates who were put to death; how many there ought to be they
calculated from the size of the vessel itself which had been taken, and from the
number of oars. He, because he had removed and taken away all who had any skill in
anything, or any beauty, suspected that there would be an outcry if he had all the
pirates fastened to the stake at once, as is the usual custom, because so many more
had been taken away than were left: although on this account he had determined to
bring them out in different parties, at different times, still in the whole city
there was no one who did not keep a strict account and list of them; and they did
not only wish to see the rest, but they openly demanded and claimed it.
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