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The Lacedaemonians when they heard him, though they made no show of being angry with the Athenians (for they had not sent their ambassadors to forbid them but, by way of advice, to admonish them not to build the wall;
besides, they bare them affection then for their courage shown against the Medes), yet they were inwardly offended because they missed of their will.
And the ambassadors returned home of either side without complaint.
The English works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury. Thucydides. Thomas Hobbes. translator. London. Bohn. 1843.
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