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Cleomenes leaves the harbour in a Centuripan trireme. A Segestan vessel comes next;
then a Tyndaritan ship; then one from Herbita, one from Heraclia, one from
Apollonia, one from Haluntium; a
fine fleet to look at, but helpless and useless because of the discharge of its
fighting men, and of its rowers. That diligent praetor surveyed the fleet under his
orders, as long as it was passing by his scene of profligate revelry. And he too,
who for many days had not been seen, then for a short time afforded the sailors a
sight of himself. The praetor of the Roman people stood in his slippers, clad in a
purple cloak, and a tunic reaching down to his ankles, leaning on a prostitute on
the shore. And since that time, many Sicilians and Roman citizens have often seen
him in this very dress.
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