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After the fleet had
proceeded a little way, and had arrived, after five days' sailing, at Pachynum, the
sailors, being compelled by hunger, gather the roots of the wild palm, of which
there was a great quantity in that neighbourhood, as there is in most parts of
Sicily, and support themselves in a
miserable and wretched way on these. But Cleomenes, who considered himself another
Verres, not only in luxury and worthlessness, but in power also, spent, like him,
all his days in drinking in a tent which he had pitched on the seashore.
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