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I have now explained to you, O conscript fathers, my design in leaving the city.
Now I will briefly set before you; also, my intention in returning, which may
perhaps appear more unaccountable. As I had avoided Brundusium, and the ordinary route into
Greece, not without good reason, on
the first of August I arrived at Syracuse, because the passage from that city into Greece was said to be a good one. And that
city, with which I had so intimate a connection, could not, though it was very
eager to do so, detain me more than one night. I was afraid that my sudden
arrival among my friends might cause some suspicion if I remained there at all.
But after the winds had driven me, on my departure from Sicily, to Leucopetra, which is a promontory
of the Rhegian district, I went up the gulf from that point, with the view of
crossing over. And I had not advanced far before I was driven back by a foul
wind to the very place which I had just quitted.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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