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The Persian King, accounting it a matter of great importance, in view of his former defeat,1 to overthrow Egypt, dispatched envoys to the greatest cities of Greece requesting them to join the Persians in the campaign against the Egyptians.2 Now the Athenians and the Lacedaemonians replied that they continued to observe their friendship for the Persians, but were opposed to sending troops as allies.

1 See 40.3 note, and 40.4 note.

2 Cp. Isoc. 4.161; Dem. 10.34 and Didymus 8.9 ff. on the passage; Philip's Letter to Demosthenes (Dem. 12.6). See also Beloch, Griechische Geschichte (2), 3.1.535 and Hall, Cambridge Ancient History, 6.152.

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