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Now the way in which the Parians healed their differences was the
following. A number of the chief Parians came to Miletus, and when
they saw in how ruined a condition the Milesians were, they said that
they would like first to go over their country. So they went through
all Milesia, and on their way, whenever they saw in the waste and
desolate country any land that was well farmed, they took down the
names of the owners in their tablets; and having thus gone through the
whole region, and obtained after all but few names, they called the
people together on their return to Miletus, and made proclamation that
they gave the government into the hands of those persons whose lands
they had found well farmed; for they thought it likely (they said)
that the same persons who had managed their own affairs well would
likewise conduct aright the business of the state. The other
Milesians, who in time past had been at variance, they placed under
the rule of these men. Thus was the Milesian government set in order
by the Parians.
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