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The Eginetans had never been punished for the wrongs which, to
pleasure the Thebans, they had committed upon Athens. Now,
however, conceiving that they were themselves wronged, and had a fair
ground of complaint against the Athenians, they instantly prepared to
revenge themselves. As it chanced that the Athenian theoris, which
was a vessel of five banks of oars, lay at Sunium, the Eginetans
contrived an ambush, and made themselves masters of the holy vessel,
on board of which were a number of Athenians of the highest rank, whom
they took and threw into prison.
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