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The grievance was that Dionysius kept the sailors on board practising manœuvres, and the marines under arms all day, in stead of letting them enjoy themselves ashore like an army in tents.

ἐκπλώσαντες. For the metaphor, here strikingly appropriate, cf. iii. 155. 3.

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