Happening to sail by the bay of Puteoli, the passengers and mariners aboard a ship of Alexandria 254 , just then arrived, clad all in white, with chaplets upon their heads, and offering incense, loaded him with praises and joyful acclamations, crying out, “By you we live, by you we sail securely, by you enjoy our liberty and our fortunes.”
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius
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