"They send us opportunities.

Ours the fault if we fail.
And as for the Greeks, you forget, O my Lentulus, the pirates I am going to punish are Greeks.

One victory over them is of more account than a hundred over the Africans." "Then thy way is to the Aegean ?" The sailor's eyes were full of his ship.
"What grace, what freedom! A bird hath not less care for the fretting of the waves.

See!" he said, but almost immediately added, "Thy pardon, my Lentulus.

I am going to the Aegean; and as my departure is so near, I will tell the occasion--only keep it under the rose.