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But I assert, that a merchant vessel of the largest size, like a
trireme, very beautiful, and highly ornamented, was openly built at the public
expense, with the knowledge of all Sicily,
and given and presented to you by the magistrates and senate of the Mamertines. This
ship, laden with Sicilian booty, itself being also a part of that booty, put into
Velia, at the same time that he himself
left the province laden with many articles, and especially with such as he did not
like to send to Rome along with the rest
of the fruits of his robberies before he arrived himself, because they were the most
valuable, and those which he was most fond of. I myself have lately seen that vessel
at Velia, O judges, and many other men
have seen it too; a very beautiful and highly ornamented ship, which, indeed, seemed
to all who beheld her, to be now looking for the banishment, and to be waiting for
the departure of her owner.
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