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The Peloponnesian War

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Day 305 Book 5, Chapter 16

The envoys returned as planned. Meanwhile, during these Argive negotiations, the Spartan ambassadors—Andromedes, Phaedimus, and Antimenidas—who were supposed to receive the prisoners from the Boeotians and return both them and Panactum to the Athenia...

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