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as the twin of the Phoebidas thing is that in 379,
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a Spartan harmost of the one of the garrisons in Boeotia
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by the name of Sphodrias
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took a force by night,
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marched into Attica,
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ostensibly his plan was to reach the Piraeus
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and then that would allow them to take control of Athens,
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because they could cut them off from their port at the sea.
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He didn't get it quite right.
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By the time morning broke and they were visible
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he was still miles and miles, and miles away from the Piraeus
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and so all he could do was to do some harm to the Athenian territory