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He orders the soldiers and the crew to return from
Myndus to Miletus on foot; he himself sold that beautiful
light vessel, picked out of the ten ships of the Milesians, to Lucius Magius and
Lucius Rabius, who were living at Myndus. These are the men whom the senate lately voted should be
considered in the number of enemies. In this vessel they sailed to all the enemies
of the Roman people, from Dianium, which is
in Spain, to Senope, which is in Pontus. O ye immortal gods! the incredible avarice,
the unheard-of audacity of such a proceeding! Did you dare to sell a ship of the
Roman fleet, which the city of Miletus
had assigned to you to attend upon you? If the magnitude of the crime, if the
opinion of men, had no influence on you, did this, too, never occur to
you,—that so illustrious and so noble a city would he a witness against
you of this most wicked theft, or rather of this most abominable robbery?
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