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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Salammbo by Gustave Flaubert: the sea.
But just now they were unable to dissemble their anxiety; they were
too pale for that. The crowd which waited for them at the gates
escorted them to their palaces in order to obtain some news from them.
As in times of pestilence, all the houses were shut; the streets would
fill and suddenly clear again; people ascended the Acropolis or ran to
the harbour, and the Great Council deliberated every night. At last
the people were convened in the square of Khamon, and it was decided
to leave the management of things to Hanno, the conqueror of
Hecatompylos.
He was a true Carthaginian, devout, crafty, and pitiless towards the
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