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While these things were going on, the Persian King1 sent envoys and succeeded in persuading the Greeks to settle their wars and make a general peace with one another. Accordingly the war called Sparto-Boeotian was settled after lasting more than five years counting from the campaign of Leuctra.

1 See Xen. Hell. 7.1.39. For previous embassies from Artaxerxes urging peace see chaps. 38.1, 50.4, 70.2. This congress which met at Thebes seems to have been as unsuccessful as the previous ones.

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