Book 29. (1 results) Swordsmen of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 5 | 493 | They View more quotes about must">must atone now for the erstwhile glory of Ar, regret her former might, influence, and power. |
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Book 29. (7 results) Swordsmen of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 5 | 490 | Myron, polemarkos of the continental forces of Cos, he of Temos, cousin to Lurius of Jad, of Cos, was in command of the city, though he maintained a headquarters outside her pomerium. |
| 5 | 491 | In this fashion it was proclaimed that Ar had been liberated and a new day had come about, one of harmony, peace, and amicability. |
| 5 | 492 | Meanwhile the citizens of Ar were to believe their loss was a gain, their defeat a victory. |
| 5 | 493 | They must atone now for the erstwhile glory of Ar, regret her former might, influence, and power. |
| 5 | 494 | Now they must acknowledge her misdeeds, and celebrate her redemption by her friends and allies, the benign forces of Cos, Tyros, and their allies. |
| 5 | 495 | And many sang, and congratulated themselves on their newly found virtue, while dismantling their walls to the scornful music of flute girls. |
| 5 | 496 | Meanwhile, of course, the invaders tightened their controls and, for months, either randomly, as it pleased them, or systematically, in accord with the directives of the polemarkos, began to loot Ar of its wealth, its silver and gold, its jewelries and gems, its medical elixirs, its ointments and scents, its pagas and wines, its manufactures, its beasts, its slaves, and, in many cases, its free women, some put in paga taverns and brothels, others stripped and coffled, to be led to foreign markets, and some even, after transport from Brundisium, to Cos and Tyros themselves. |
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Myron, polemarkos of the continental forces of Cos, he of Temos, cousin to Lurius of Jad, of Cos, was in command of the city, though he maintained a headquarters outside her pomerium.
In this fashion it was proclaimed that Ar had been liberated and a new day had come about, one of harmony, peace, and amicability.
Meanwhile the citizens of Ar were to believe their loss was a gain, their defeat a victory.
They must atone now for the erstwhile glory of Ar, regret her former might, influence, and power.
Now they must acknowledge her misdeeds, and celebrate her redemption by her friends and allies, the benign forces of Cos, Tyros, and their allies.
And many sang, and congratulated themselves on their newly found virtue, while dismantling their walls to the scornful music of flute girls.
Meanwhile, of course, the invaders tightened their controls and, for months, either randomly, as it pleased them, or systematically, in accord with the directives of the polemarkos, began to loot Ar of its wealth, its silver and gold, its jewelries and gems, its medical elixirs, its ointments and scents, its pagas and wines, its manufactures, its beasts, its slaves, and, in many cases, its free women, some put in paga taverns and brothels, others stripped and coffled, to be led to foreign markets, and some even, after transport from Brundisium, to Cos and Tyros themselves.
- (Swordsmen of Gor)