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[ Thucyd., lib. i., c. 89.

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[ Ibid., lib. i., c. 90.

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[ Diod. Sic., lib. xi.; Thucyd., lib. i., c. 90.

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[ Ap. Plut. in vit. Them.

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[ Diodorus (lib. xi.) tells us that the Spartan ambassadors, indulging in threatening and violent language at perceiving the walls so far advanced, were arrested by the Athenians, who declared they would only release them on receiving hack safe and uninjured their own ambassadors.