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no, all these things have been the source of many complaints against her, while because of the battle of Marathon, the naval battle at Salamis, and most of all because her citizens abandoned their own homes to insure the deliverance of Hellas,1 she enjoys the encomiums of all mankind. The same opinion is held regarding the Lacedaemonians also;
1 For these services see Isoc. 4.91-96.