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Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley) 190 0 Browse Search
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C. Suetonius Tranquillus, Divus Julius (ed. Alexander Thomson), chapter 4 (search)
Apollonius, the son of Molon, at that time the most celebrated master of rhetoric. While on his voyage thither, in the winter season, he was taken by pirates near the island of Pharmacusa, Pharmacusa, an island lying off the coast of Asia, near Miletus. It is now called Parmosa. and detained by them, burning with indignation, for nearly forty days; his only attendants being a physician and two chamberlains. For he had instantly dispatched his other servants and the friends who accompanied himc province, who were equally liberal from their public funds in the case of other Romans who fell into the hands of pirates at that period. Fifty talents having been paid down, he was landed on the coast, when, having collected some ships, From Miletus, as we are informed by Plutarch. he lost no time in putting to sea in pursuit of the pirates, and having captured them, inflicted upon them the punishment with which he had often threatened them in jest. At that time Mithridates was ravaging th