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The Thessalians had therefore a double cause of quarrel with the
Phocians, when they dispatched the herald above mentioned, who thus
delivered his message:
"At length acknowledge, ye men of Phocis, that ye may not think to
match with us. In times past, when it pleased us to hold with the
Greeks, we had always the vantage over you; and now our influence is
such with the barbarian, that, if we choose it, you will lose your
country, and (what is even worse) you will be sold as slaves.
However, though we can now do with you exactly as we like, we are
willing to forget our wrongs. Quit them with a payment of fifty
talents of silver, and we undertake to ward off the evils which
threaten your country."
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