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[...]Ap. Polybius has the Romans in 242, despite exhaustion, create a new fleet because the land war was stalemated; B. instead uses Dios mention of Roman privateering after 249 to argue that privateering proceeds had restored nancial The Classical Review vol. 54 no. 2 The Classical Association 2004; all rights reserved 488 prosperity, the new fleet was simply the existing navy which had been loaned to privateers, and Lutatius oensive was due to hopes of booty more than to patriotism (pp. 20514). ISBN: 0-415-25713-1. Since 1990 there have been several book length studies of Roman cavalry.K.