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The Persians learned from the Greeks the burning of temples, repaying those who had been the first to offend justice with the same wanton act.1

1 Hdt. 5.102 says that the Persians gave the burning by Greeks of the temple of Cybele in Sardis as an excuse for their burning the temples of Greece.

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