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Generals with
only one or two ships raise less; those with a larger fleet raise more. Also
those who pay do not pay the sum, be it large or small, for nothing; they are
not such madmen. No, they purchase for the merchants sailing from their own
harbors immunity from injury or robbery, or a safe conduct for their own ships,
or something of that sort. They say that they are granting
“benevolences.” That is the name for these exactions.
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