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The Peloponnesian War

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Day 282 Book 5, Chapter 15

Around this same period, Phaeax, son of Erasistratus, sailed from Athens with two fellow ambassadors on a diplomatic mission to Italy and Sicily. Following the Athenian withdrawal from Sicily after the general peace settlement, the Leontines had enro...

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