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And although you
have seen with what rapidity these things were done, still that rapidity ought not to be
passed over by me in speaking of them.—For who ever, even if he were only going for
the purpose of transacting business or making profit, contrived in so short a time to visit so
many places, and to perform such long journeys, with as great celerity as Cnaeus Pompeius has
performed his voyage, bearing with him the terrors of war as our general? He, when the weather
could hardly be called open for sailing, went to Sicily, explored the coasts of Africa;
from thence he came with his fleet to Sardinia, and
these three great granaries of the republic he fortified with powerful garrisons and fleets;
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