Chunk 2 Flashcards
posteaquam paulum provecta classis est et Pachynum quinto die
denique adpulsa, nautae coacti fame radices palmarum agrestium,
quarum erat in illis locis, sicuti in magna parte Siciliae, multitudo,
colligebant et iis miseri perditique alebantur; Cleomenes autem,
qui alterum se Verrem cum luxurie ac nequitia tum etiam imperio
putaret, similiter totos dies in litore tabernaculo posito perpotabat.
After the fleet had sailed forth a little way and eventually landed at Pachynum, the sailors on the fifth day, the sailors, compelled by hunger, collected the roots of wild palms of which there was a large number in that region, as in a large part of Sicily and the desperate, wretched men sustained themselves with these roots; meanwhile Cleomenes since he considered himself a second Verres both in riotous living and wickedness and even in supreme command, having pitched camp on the shore in similar fashion drank his ways through whole days.
