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But now, also
every coast, all foreign nations and countries, all seas, both in their open waters and in
every bay, and creek, and harbour, are my witnesses. For during these last years, what place
in any part of the sea had so strong a garrison as to be safe from him? what place was so much
hidden as to escape his notice? Whoever put to sea without being aware that he was committing
himself to the hazard of death or slavery, either from storms or from the sea being crowded
with pirates? Who would ever have supposed that a war of such extent, so mean, so old a war, a
war so extensive in its theatre and so widely scattered, could have been terminated by all our
generals put together in one year, or by one general in all the years of his life?
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge, B. A. London. Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden. 1856.
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