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They all encourage one another, while he is
still half asleep and stupefied; they take arms; they fill the whole forum and the
island, which is a considerable portion of the whole city. The pirates having
remained at Elorum that single night, left our ships still smoking, and began to
sail to Syracuse; for as they,
forsooth, had often heard that nothing could be finer than the fortifications and
harbour of Syracuse, they had made up
their minds that if they did not see them while Verres was praetor, they should
never see them at all.
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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