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The Peloponnesian War

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Day 208 Book 4, Chapter 12

When the Peloponnesians returned from their invasion of Attica, the Spartans themselves, along with the nearest of the perioeci, immediately marched toward Pylos. The rest of the Lacedaemonians followed more slowly, having just returned from another ...

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