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GREECE AND TITE COMMAND OF THE SEA. rro7 , .. EDITOR OF

THE SPECTATOR."' SIR,—In making up their minds at the present time the Greeks would do well to attend to the wisdom of the ancients, and particularly to what one of their own orators said four centuries B.O. :—.61.1(rrarrOe /a 15/1 01, 6.ex4) Tay npaTothm-cor Tijs eaAdeans—Lysias, Oiumpinkos ("But know that empire is

for those that control the sea ").—I am, Sir, &c., J. M.