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When Sosicles, the deputy from Corinth, had thus spoken, Hippias
replied, and, invoking the same gods, he said - "Of a surety the
Corinthians will, beyond all others, regret the Pisistratidae, when
the fated days come for them to be distressed by the Athenians."
Hippias spoke thus because he knew the prophecies better than any man
living. But the rest of the allies, who till Sosicles spoke had
remained quiet, when they heard him utter his thoughts thus boldly,
all together broke silence, and declared themselves of the same mind;
and withal, they conjured the Lacedaemonians "not to revolutionise a
Grecian city." And in this way the enterprise came to nought.
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