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However those who were left
behind displayed a good deal of courage. Although they were few in numbers, still
they cried out, that whatever might be the event, they were willing to fight; and
they preferred losing by the sword the little life and strength that hunger had left
them. And if Cleomenes had not run away so long before, there would have been some
means of making resistance, for that ship was the only one with a deck, and was
large enough to have been a bulwark to the rest, and if it had been engaged in
battle with the pirates, it would have looked like a city among those piratical
galleys; but at that time the sailors being helpless, and deserted by their
commander and prefect of the fleet, began of necessity to hold the same course that
he had held.
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