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Day 73 Book 1, Chapter 5

To return to Pausanias's collaboration with the Persians: during the investigation, evidence emerged that also implicated Themistocles. The Spartans therefore sent ambassadors to Athens demanding that the Athenians punish Themistocles just as they ha...

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