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Here, while you were praetor, galleys of
pirates sailed about, where previously the only fleet that had ever entered in the
history of the world, was the Athenian fleet of three hundred ships, which forced
its way in by its weight and its numbers; and that fleet was in that very harbour
defeated and destroyed, owing to the natural character of the place and harbour.
Here first was the power of that splendid city defeated, weakened, and impaired. In
this harbour, shipwreck was made of the nobleness and dominion and glory of
Athens. 1
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1 See the seventh book of Thucydides.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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