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[2] And the spirits of civilized men are gripped, I believe, most perhaps by mercy, because of the sympathy which nature has planted in all. The Athenians, for example, although in the Peloponnesian War they had blockaded many Lacedaemonians on the island of Sphacteria1 and taken them captive, released them to the Spartans on payment of ransom.

1 Cp. Book 12.61 ff.

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