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with their victory and so they are expanding all over the place.
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Thebans were great landlubbers,
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they're even building a navy,
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they are moving out into the Aegean Sea,
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and that's one of the things that has created this
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nervousness in Athens and explains the Athenian behavior.
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Now comes this great invasion
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over the year 370, 369.
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The total force of hoplites
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in the army put together by Epaminondas
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is reported to be 40,000.
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Now, there's just not a number like that