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Day 189 Book 3, Chapter 11

That same winter, the Athenians stationed in Sicily joined forces with the Rhegians and launched a naval expedition with thirty ships against the Aeolian Islands. Summer campaigns against these islands were impossible due to the lack of fresh water. ...

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