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Say, rather, that you yourself are
increasing his difficulties. For he destroyed the fleets of the pirates, their cities, and
harbours, and places of refuge. By his surpassing valour and incredible rapidity of motion he
established a maritime peace; but this he neither undertook nor ought to have
undertaken,—namely, to submit to appear worthy of prosecution if a single pirate's
boat was anywhere seen. Therefore he himself in Asia, when he had terminated every war, both
by land and sea, nevertheless levied a fleet on those self-same cities. And if he then thought
that step was necessary, when everything might have been safe and tranquil through fear of his
name, while he was still in those countries, what do you think that Flaccus ought to have
decided on and to have done after he had departed?
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