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About this time the Thessalians, who continued the war upon Alexander, tyrant of Pherae, and, suffering defeat in most of the battles, had lost large numbers of their fighting men, sent ambassadors to the Thebans with a request to assist them and to dispatch to them Pelopidas as general.1 For they knew that on account of his arrest2 by Alexander he was on very bad terms with the ruler, and besides, that he was a man of superior courage and widely renowned for his shrewdness in the art of war.

1 See Plut. Pelopidas 31-35; Nepos Pelopidas 5.

2 See chaps. 71.2, 75.2.

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