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The Peloponnesian War

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Day 74 Book 1, Chapter 5

After receiving monetary compensation from him—funds that came partly from his associates in Athens and partly from his secret reserves in Argos—Themistocles traveled inland accompanied by a Persian from the coastal region. He dispatched a letter to ...

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