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Accordingly they all sailed towards
Elorum, as Cleomenes had done; but they indeed were not so much flying from the
attack of the pirates as following their commander. Then as each was last in flight,
he was first in danger, for the pirates came upon the last ships first, and so the
Haluntian vessel is taken first, which was commanded by an Haluntian of noble birth,
Philarchus by name, whom the Locrians afterwards ransomed at the public expense from
those pirates, and from whom, on his oath, you at the former pleading learnt the
whole of the circumstances and their cause. The Apollonian vessel is taken next, and
Anthropinus, its captain, is slain.
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