Illud referatur documentum tanti mox evasuri viri: quae nox eam diem secuta est, qua publica civitatium pecunia redemptus est, ita tamen, ut cogeret ante obsides a piratis civitatibus dari, et privatus et contracta classe tumultuaria invectus in eum locum, in quo ipsi praedones erant, partem classis fugavit, partem mersit, aliquot navis multosque mortalis cepit; .
The following story, however, may be told as a presage of his future greatness. On the night following the day on which his ransom was paid by the cities of Asia'he had, however, compelled the pirates before payment to give hostages to these cities'although he was but a private citizen without authority, and his fleet had been collected on the spur of the moment, he directed his course to the rendezvous of the pirates, put to flight part of their fleet, sank part, and captured several ships and many men.
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