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The Peloponnesian War

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Day 337 Book 6, Chapter 18

Around this same period, Lamis arrived in Sicily leading colonists from Megara. He initially established a settlement called Trotilus beyond the river Pantacyas, but soon abandoned it to briefly join the Chalcidian community at Leontini. When the Cha...

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