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φυλλάδα κτλ. Hysteron-Proteron. Clearly he first had the trenches filled with earth and then covered them over with leaves. It is most unlikely that such an obvious fraud was ever attempted: the storyis a Greek invention intended to bring Xerxes into contempt.

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