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On the contrary,
when you, or rather the Athenians of that day, were thought to be showing a want
of consideration in dealing with others, all felt it their duty, even those who
had no grievance against them, to go to war in support of those who had been
injured; and again, when the Lacedaemonians had risen to power and succeeded to
your position of supremacy, and when they set to work to encroach on others and
interfered unduly with the established order of things, all the Greeks were up
in arms, even those who had no grievance of their own.
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