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this story is all told in Plutarch's Life of Cimon,
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if you want to have a look at that.
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He seems to have evidence about what was said
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at this debate in the assembly,
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and Ephialtes is supposed to have said something like
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the arrogance of Sparta must be trampled underfoot
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and he lost the argument.
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Cimon once again won the argument.
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Athens sends a force of the four thousand hoplites
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down into the Peloponnesus.
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They were called on especially--
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The Spartans wanted them,