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Day 271 Book 4, Chapter 14

While Brasidas was planning his operations against these cities, a ship arrived carrying commissioners who were announcing the armistice—Aristonymus representing Athens and Athenaeus representing Sparta. The troops withdrew to Torone, and the commiss...

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