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He orders Cleomenes and the
naval captains to be summoned before him. They come. He accuses them of having held
this language about himself; he begs them to cease from holding it; and begs every
one there to say that he had had in his ship as large a crew as he ought to have
had, and that none had been discharged. They promise him to do whatever he wished.
He does not delay. He immediately summons his friends. He then asks of all the
captains separately how many sailors each had had on board his ship. Each of them
answers as he had been enjoined to. He makes an entry of their answers in his
journal. He seals it up, prudent man that he is, with the seals of his friends; in
order forsooth, to use this evidence against this charge, if ever it should be
necessary.
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