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The Peloponnesian War

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Day 292 Book 5, Chapter 15

The Spartans, whose responsibility it was to begin implementing the treaty's terms, immediately released all their prisoners of war and dispatched Ischagoras, Menas, and Philocharidas as ambassadors to the Thracian region. Their mission was to instru...

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