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| 11 | 576 | "Did you not decline?" View more quotes about asked">asked Samos. |
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| 11 | 573 | "Antisthenes is wise," I said, "and understands the risks involved, but many of the words Samos has addressed to us seem to me sound and true, and chief among them his assertion that it should be a captain who conducts this mission, for how else could we so easily prove the seriousness of our intentions, if not to Cos and Tyros, then to their allies and to undeclared ports and cities on the islands and coasts of gleaming Thassa, and to those communities inland as well, with whom we might well improve our trade?" "But," said Bejar, "who among us will go?" There was laughter in the council. |
| 11 | 574 | When it was silent, I said, "I, Bosk, might go". |
| 11 | 575 | The captains regarded one another. |
| 11 | 576 | "Did you not decline?" asked Samos. |
| 11 | 577 | "No," I smiled, "I only suggested that one more worthy than myself undertake so weighty a task". |
| 11 | 578 | "Do not go," said Antisthenes. |
| 11 | 579 | "What is your price?" asked Samos. |