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Some of the Greeks say that this account agrees remarkably with what
happened many years afterwards. Callias, the son of Hipponicus, and
certain others with him, had gone up to Susa, the city of Memnon,
as ambassadors of the Athenians, upon a business quite distinct from
this. While they were there, it happened that the Argives likewise
sent ambassadors to Susa, to ask Artaxerxes, the son of Xerxes,
"if the friendship which they had formed with his father still
continued, or if he looked upon them as his enemies?" - to which
King Artaxerxes replied, "Most certainly it continues; and there
is no city which I reckon more my friend than Argos."
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