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Day 205 Book 4, Chapter 12

The following summer, around the time when grain begins to form ears, ten ships from Syracuse and an equal number from Locri sailed to Messina in Sicily. The inhabitants had invited them, and Messina defected from Athens. The Syracusans orchestrated ...

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