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The Peloponnesian War

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Day 202 Book 3, Chapter 11

The following day, a herald arrived from those Ambraciots who had escaped from Olpae to the Agraeans. He came to request permission to retrieve the bodies of those who had died in the initial battle, when they had departed the camp alongside the Mant...

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