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| #### #### After this declaration, he turned to Eurybiades, and addressing him with still greater warmth and earnestness - "If thou wilt stay here," he said, "and behave like a brave man, all will be well - if not, thou wilt bring Greece to ruin. For the whole fortune of the war depends on our ships. Be thou persuaded by my words. If not, we will take our families on board, and go, just as we are, to Siris, in Italy, which is ours from of old, and which the prophecies declare we are to colonise some day or other. You then, when you have lost allies like us, will hereafter call to mind what I have now said." ####  |