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You will understand it if you look at it in this way. When have the
affairs of Greece been in the greatest
confusion? For no other occasion than the present could possibly be named by
anyone. All during the past Greece was
divided into two camps, the Lacedaemonians' and ours, and of the other Greeks
some took their orders from us, others from them. The king of Persia, in himself, was equally distrusted by
all, but by taking up the cause of the losing side in the struggle, he retained
their confidence until he could put them on an equality with the others; but
thereafter he was no less hated by those he had saved than by those who had been
his enemies from the beginning.
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