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Accordingly they were making ready to take their revenge when a fresh
stir on the part of the Lacedaemonians hindered their projects. These
last had become aware of the truth - how that the Alcmaeonidae had
practised on the Pythoness, and the Pythoness had schemed against
themselves, and against the Pisistratidae; and the discovery was a
double grief to them, for while they had driven their own sworn friends
into exile, they found that they had not gained thereby a particle of
good will from Athens. They were also moved by certain prophecies,
which declared that many dire calamities should befall them at the hands
of the Athenians. Of these in times past they had been ignorant; but
now they had become acquainted with them by means of Cleomenes, who
had brought them with him to Sparta, having found them in the
Athenian citadel, where they had been left by the Pisistratidae when
they were driven from Athens: they were in the temple, and Cleomenes
having discovered them, carried them off.
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