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Day 324 Book 5, Chapter 16

Summer came to an end. In the early days of the following winter, after the Carnean festival had concluded, the Spartans mobilized their forces and marched to Tegea, from where they sent peace proposals to Argos. They had long maintained a faction wi...

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