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[4] Despite the fact that you slighted me, I will not make an example of you; I am ready to send to your aid two hundred triremes, twenty thousand men-at-arms, two thousand horsemen, two thousand archers, two thousand slingers, and two thousand light-armed men to run with horsemen.1 I also pledge to furnish provisions for the whole Greek army until we have made an end of the war.

1 Probably active infantry troops, able to keep up with the cavalry.

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