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I say,
moreover, that those very sailors who were left, were worn out and disabled by
famine, and by a want of every necessary. I say, that either all were free from
blame, or that if blame must be attributable to some one, the greatest blame must be
due to him who had the best ship, the largest crew, and the chief command; or, that
if all were to blame, Cleomenes ought not to have been a spectator of the death and
torture of those men. I say, besides, that in those executions, to allow of that
traffic in tears, of that bargaining for an effective wound and a deadly blow, of
that bargaining for the funeral and sepulture of the victims, was impiety.
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