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5For you yourselves, of course, see the length and beam of our vessels, which are such that even if the enemy’s were a match for them in number, yet because of these advantages on our side they could do no damage either by charging bows-on or by ramming our sides. For in the one case the thickness of our timbers, and in the other the very height of our ships, would certainly check them, even if there were no one on board to ward them off.
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