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which he did.
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But it was, of course, on the Greek scene,
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it was a great defeat for the Spartans and it was a challenge
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to the Spartans. It was obvious that Conon, at least,
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and who knew what might happen on the part of other Greeks,
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were going to resist Spartan power and Spartan aggressiveness,
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and that if he wanted to come back,
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then he would have to have a navy.
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The Spartans set out to increase their navy to meet this challenge
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and just to look ahead a few years,
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as I think we need to at this moment,
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it was that Spartan fleet