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Then, wishing to remove the discouragement and dejection which prevailed among the young men, he made an incursion into Arcadia,
1 and though he studiously avoided joining battle with the enemy, he took a small town of the Mantineans and overran their territory, and thus lightened and gladdened the expectations of his city, which felt that its case was not wholly desperate.
1 In 370 B.C. (Xenophon, Hell. vi. 5, 10-21).
Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1917. 5.
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