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| 31 | 177 | View more quotes about surely">Surely if Policrates had been in the holding he would have threatened me with his name and not that of Kliomenes, since I had expressly mentioned Policrates and he stood higher in the holding than Kliomenes. |
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| 31 | 174 | "I have warned you about your lies!" The whip fell again and again on me. |
| 31 | 175 | "Persist in these lies," cried the pirate, "and I will bring the matter to the attention of Kliomenes himself!" "Forgive me, Captain," I said, as though frightened. |
| 31 | 176 | But I had also gathered from his remark that my conjecture that Policrates was not now in the holding was correct. |
| 31 | 177 | Surely if Policrates had been in the holding he would have threatened me with his name and not that of Kliomenes, since I had expressly mentioned Policrates and he stood higher in the holding than Kliomenes. |
| 31 | 178 | Kliomenes must now, I gathered, be in charge of the holding. |
| 31 | 179 | This, I felt, was in the best interests of my plan. |
| 31 | 180 | "Lower the gate!" we heard a man call. |