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Thank You. Are you a Latin scholar? Have you been directed to this web page because of the Latin phrase
ubi bene, meaning, roughly, where I feel fine? Or are you here simply because the word latin
occurs so often in the text of this web page? Or alternatively, are you a history scholar? A history scholar
looking for source of the phrase ubi bene? Well, the sleek new luxury yacht Ubi Bene is a younger sister
of the luxury yacht Hic Salta, hic salta Latin for here I dance, words said to have been uttered
by Julius Caesar upon his 75 BC arrival in Rhodes Town to attend Apollonius Molo's School of Rhetoric. As the
school was then in what is now a park for strutting peacocks, perhaps Caesar meant here I strut, for
oratorical strutting seems more probable than oratorical dancing. Or could Caesar have simply meant
ubi bene upon his arrival, Rhodes Town is where I feel fine. Julius Caesar is similarly quoted as
having said Libenter homines id quod volunt credunt, meaning Men gladly believe that which they wish
for. Though why an individual with oratorical command of Latin as well as military command of Roman legions
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leave a dangling participle is also unclear. Julius Caesar is most famous,
however, for having spoken the words Veni, vidi, vici, meaning I came, I saw, I conquered. That is
said to be an August 47 BC reference to his lightening quick campaign into central Anatolia and his victory over
a rebellious King Pharnaces of Bosphorus at Zela, a town in Cappadocia. But in that Caesar had departed Egypt
only weeks earlier, it might well have been a reference to his conquest of that country's queen. As that
country's queen was fluent in seven languages including Latin, and as she arrived at Alexandria after Julius
Caesar, those words might have been hers and not his. This web page deals not with Julius Caesar, though, not
even with Cleopatra. Nor does it deal with Apollonius Molo, a native Anatolian from Alabanda near modern Aydin,
even though Alabanda remains a titular see of the Latin church called Alabandensis. Rather, this page
deals with a five guest-cabin luxury schooner called Ubi Bene sailing Turkey and Greece. And while it also deals
with Latin, to whom the words ubi bene must be attributed remains a mystery. Should the schooner-rigged
yacht Ubi Bene be of interest, should you be considering a luxury sailing holiday in the Greek Aegean or a
luxury charter along the Turkish coast, well, read on. The schooner Ubi Bene offers charters along Turkey's
pine-clad cove-indented Aegean and Mediterranean coasts. She also offers holidays among Dodecanese and Cyclades
islands of Aegean Greece. She is further able to take her guests through the crossroads of history, and is able
to offer informal classes in geography as well as history, including corsair geography and corsair history.
Would that be of interest to young people in your group? Sailing in the wake of Ottoman corsairs such as the
Barbarossa brothers. Sailing in the wake of Khizr Barbarossa's lieutenant general, or senior lieutenant, Aydin
Reis? There's the word Aydin again! And it's not even Latin! What do you know about Aydin Reis? Anything
at all? Aydin Reis was not a native of Aydin. He was an Ethiopian by heritage and a Coptic Christian by
upbringing probably born in Antalya, Turkey, in 1485 or so. Some say he was born at Smyrna on the Turkish
Aegean but in either event he was born to the sea, fishing as a toddler, crewing in his teens, learning the
marine trade early-on. Learning the marine trade in the company of Sinan of Smyrna, a corsair who was to
become Barbarossa's brother-in-law by marriage to a Barbarossa sister. In his twenties and then known as
Aydin Caramano, he and Sinan were in the pay of the Mameluke sultan of Egypt, Cleopatra having long since
departed, attempting to clear sea lanes for the sultan's merchants and, in their spare time, preying on
Latin-held islands of the Aegean. Preying on Latins was a favorite pastime of 16th century Orthodox Christians.
Copts, too. Both Aydin and Sinan soon came to Barbarossa's attention while the former rose in ability to surpass
Sinan in Barbarossa's esteem. By 1520 Aydin Reis had become Barbarossa's senior lieutenant and was at his right
hand when Tunis was taken in that year. Twelve months later he could be found plundering the (Latin) Spanish
coast and offshore Balearic Islands, and in the years to follow he was to make himself familiar with (Latin)
Sardinia and (Latin) Sicily, as well. Perhaps his finest day came in 1529. Already known to the Spanish as
Cacciadiavoli, loosely interpreted as Hunting Devil, he that year commanded with Hassan Celebi,
Salih Reis, and Suleiman Reis a flotilla of eleven ships, mostly small open-decked galliots called fustas. At
Formentera while transporting Moors from persecution in Spain to haven in Africa he was surprised by a flotilla
of eight large galleys under the command of Rodrigo Portundo, Admiral of the Spanish Armada. The battle should
have been over in minutes with Portundo emerging victorious. It was over in minutes with Portundo dead and with
Aydin Reis victorious having captured seven of the eight galleys, having freed from the benches hundreds of
Muslim slaves, and having scores of prisoners to be held for ransom or to fill the vacuum at Muslim oars. Why
not charter a luxury sailing yacht like Ubi Bene to cruise through Mediterranean history. Starting in
Smyrna, perhaps, or in nearby Foca. Are you searching for Smyrna in Turkey? Now called Izmir, it may be found
due east of Chios Town on the Greek island of Chios and proximate to its own international airport. There or
elsewhere we can put you aboard a charter yacht luxury sailing both the Turkish and Greek Aegean. We can put
you aboard a charter yacht with an experienced crew able to show you the Gulf of Smyrna and able to sail with
you on the Imbat, that famous wind capable of moving the largest of sailing yachts. And, of course, the
crew would be able to show you Aydin Reis's tracks in pursuit of Latin shipping. Ubi Bene, a fine schooner
available for luxury sailing in the Greek and Turkish Aegean. Contact Blue Cruise Yacht Charters
today at