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The Ephors, when they had heard this speech, delayed their answer
till the morrow; and when the morrow came, till the day following.
And thus they acted for ten days, continually putting off the
ambassadors from one day to the next. Meanwhile the Peloponnesians
generally were labouring with great zeal at the wall, and the work
nearly approached completion. I can give no other reason for the
conduct of the Lacedaemonians in showing themselves so anxious, at the
time when Alexander came, that the Athenians should not join the
Medes, and now being quite careless about it, except that at the
former time the wall across the Isthmus was not complete, and they
worked at it in great fear of the Persians, whereas now the bulwark
had been raised, and so they imagined that they had no further need of
the Athenians.
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