Note 74
BOOK VIII
[ The reader will find this threat fulfilled in bk. xiii]
…ng too easy-going in the matter of giving people escorts. He said that one of these days he should wreck a ship of ours as it was returning from having escorted some one,[74] and bury our city under a high mountain. This is what my father used to say, but whether the god will carry out his threat or no is a matter which he will decide for himself.
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