Pompey

Every line we carry

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1. To sail is necessary. To live is not.

   Pompey had to ship grain to Rome through a heavy storm. When the pilots hesitated, he boarded first, ordered the anchor up and shouted that sailing was necessary, living was not. The mission comes first. Later the Hanseatic sailors made it their motto.

   Plutarch, Life of Pompey 50.1, our translation from the Greek