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[3] At a later time, however, when he had some ground for accusation against the Lacedaemonians, as general of the league1 Philopoemen brought back its exiles to the city, and put to death eighty Spartans, according to Polybius,2 or according to Aristocrates, three hundred and fifty.

1 Philopoemen was for the sixth time general in 188 B.C.

2 In a passage not extant. Livy gives the same number (xxxviii. 33).

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