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And they
fought together with you and the others who were seeking to save the freedom of
Greece in the final battle at Plataea against Mardonius, the King's general, and
deposited the liberty thus secured as a common prize for all the Greeks. And
when Pausanias, the king of the Lacedaemonians, sought to put an insult upon
you, and was not content that the Lacedaemonians had been honored by the Greeks
with the supreme command, and when your city, which in reality had been the
leader in securing liberty for the Greeks, forbore to strive with the
Lacedaemonians as rivals for the honor through fear of arousing jealousy among
the allies;
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