et cum nec duodecim milium obiectu sic retarderis, quid, putamus, cum exercitu Marci Catonis in Leptitana Syrte fecisses?
And indeed, if you are so delayed by an intervening space of barely twelve miles, what can we suppose you would have done had you been with the army of Marcus Cato in the desert of Leptis?
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