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[3] This was said to men who were still young and giddy with wine, and so, as would be expected, someone shouted out to form the comus and to light torches, and urged all to take vengeance for the destruction of the Greek temples.1

1 That is, in the invasions of Greece by Dareius and Xerxes. Cp. Book 16.89.2.

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