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or, if he refused, we could promptly
report his refusal. In that case you, observing his grasping spirit and perfidy
in those distant and comparatively unimportant places, would no longer be
negligent of the more important concerns that lay nearer home—I mean
the Phocians and Thermopylae.
If he had not seized the positions, and if there had been no deception of you,
all your interests were safe enough, and you would get fair treatment from him
without compulsion.
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