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Pray now, on what consideration ought you to absolve Andocides? As a good soldier? But he has never gone on any expedition from the city, either in the cavalry or in the infantry, either as a ship's captain or as a marine, either before our disaster1 or after our disaster, though he is more than forty years old.
1 The victory of the Peloponnesians over the Athenians at Aegospotami in the Hellespont, 405 B.C.
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