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Meanwhile Cleomenes, who considered himself to have been insulted by
the Athenians both in word and deed, was drawing a force together from
all parts of the Peloponnese, without informing any one of his
object; which was to revenge himself on the Athenians, and to
establish Isagoras, who had escaped with him from the citadel, as
despot of Athens. Accordingly, with a large army, he invaded the
district of Eleusis, while the Boeotians, who had concerted measures
with him, took Oenoe and Hysiae, two country towns upon the
frontier; and at the same time the Chalcideans, on another side,
plundered divers places in Attica. The Athenians, notwithstanding
that danger threatened them from every quarter, put off all thought of
the Boeotians and Chalcideans till a future time, and marched against
the Peloponnesians, who were at Eleusis.
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