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Day 278 Book 4, Chapter 14

While the siege of Scione continued, Perdiccas sent an envoy to the Athenian commanders and negotiated a peace treaty with Athens. His motivation was resentment toward Brasidas over the withdrawal from Lyncus—indeed, from that very moment he had begu...

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