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I have heard, however, another tale, very different from this,
which is told by the Peloponnesians: they say, that Anacharsis was
sent by the king of the Scyths to make acquaintance with Greece -
that he went, and on his return home reported that the Greeks were all
occupied in the pursuit of every kind of knowledge, except the
Lacedaemonians; who, however, alone knew how to converse sensibly.
A silly tale this, which the Greeks have invented for their
amusement! There is no doubt that Anacharsis suffered death in the
mode already related, on account of his attachment to foreign customs,
and the intercourse which he held with the Greeks.
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