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I would give my life to
recapitulate the reply that we made: but I am afraid that, as that crisis is
long past, and as you may think that all those transactions are now obliterated
as by a flood, you would regard any discussion of them as useless and vexatious.
I will only ask you to hear how far we prevailed upon them, and what answer they
returned. Take and read this document.“
Reply of the Thebans
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