He who commands the sea has command of everything.

Themistocles. Quoted in Cicero: Letters to Atticus, by Marcus Tullius Cicero, translated by D. R. Shackleton Bailey. Vol. 2, Harvard, University Press, 1999, bk. 10, no. 8.

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Themistocles. Quoted in Epistulae ad Atticum [Letters to Atticus], by Marcus Tullius Cicero. 1 century BC, bk. 10, no. 8.

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