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While these things were going on, some partisans of the Lacedaemonians in Corcyra revolted against the democracy and called upon the Spartans to dispatch a fleet, promising to betray Corcyra to them. The Lacedaemonians, aware of the great importance that Corcyra had for the aspirants to sea power, made haste to possess themselves of this city.1

1 As to the Lacedaemonian aggression see Cary, Cambridge Ancient History, 6.77 and Xen. Hell. 6.2.4. Note the intervention of Dionysius in chap. 47.7.

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