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Day 178 Book 3, Chapter 10

Let this be sufficient to justify our collaboration with the Persians. We will now attempt to demonstrate that you have harmed the Greeks more than we have, and deserve far greater punishment. You claim that you became allies and citizens of Athens t...

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