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[2] And when the Selinuntians went to war with them over the land in dispute,1 they withdrew from it of their free will, being concerned lest the Syracusans should use this excuse to join the Selinuntians in the war and they should thereby run the risk of utterly destroying their country.

1 Cp. Book 12.82.

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