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Would this not elicit curiosity? Might it not seem to require an explanation? Who are these men and what might be their purpose or purposes? This suggested that Archelaos might not be invulnerable in Sybaris. - (Avengers of Gor, Chapter 17, Sentence #77)

Word had reached me at the Cove of Harpalos that the raiders outside Sybaris had broken camp and, as far as my informants could determine, were now scattered about, but proximately, some distributed within Sybaris and others beyond its pomerium, in the nearby countryside. I inferred two likelihoods given this information, one encouraging and the other considerably less so. First, and heartening, it seemed that Archelaos recognized the suspicious nature of openly maintaining a large number of armed men in the vicinity of Sybaris, many of a presumably unsavory sort. Would this not elicit curiosity? Might it not seem to require an explanation? Who are these men and what might be their purpose or purposes? This suggested that Archelaos might not be invulnerable in Sybaris. He apparently deemed it prudential, at least at present, to continue to dissociate himself from any possible relationship to the corsairs who had terrorized coastal villages and the local waters. Tyrants thrive where justice sleeps, but what if justice should stir and wake? It behooves the wise tyrant to tread softly and embellish his image as the selfless servant of the people. What tyrant is so stupid as not to do so? Urts and jards take care not to wake the larl on whose kill they feed. - (Avengers of Gor)