“Mark, when a man, a Barbarian, shall yoke the Sea with papyrus,

Then do thou plan to remove the loud-bleating goats from Euboea.”

“Mark, when a man, a Barbarian, shall yoke the Sea with papyrus, Then do thou plan to remove the loud-bleating goats from Euboea.”

In the evils which at this time were either upon them or soon to be expected they might feel not a little sorry that they had paid no attention to these lines.

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