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numquam dimoveas ut: you could never induce to.—trabe Cypria, in a Cyprian bark. Trabs, beam, is used here by metonymy for ship. Cf. Verg. Aen. 3. 191; Catull. 4. 3; Pind. Pyth. 4. 27. Cyprus, a large island in the E. Mediterranean, was famous for its timber and merchandise (3. 29. 60; Pliny, N.H. 16. 203), and it was boasted that Cyprus could build a ship from keel to mast-top from its own resources (Ammian. Marc. 14. 8. 14).


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