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 STRATAGEMS, II. xiii. ii

fair, but the tide was out. Although the vessels were stranded on the flats, he nevertheless ordered the sails to be spread. Caesar, who was following from a distance, seeing the sails swelling with the full breeze, and imagining Connnius to be escaping from his hands and to be proceeding on a prosperous voyage, abandoned the pursuit.