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and get them down from their fort up on Mount Ithome,
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but they finally made a deal with the people up there saying,
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we will allow you to come down in safety
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and go away someplace so long as you leave the Peloponnesus.
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They undoubtedly expected that
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the helots would then be scattered one here,one there, one other place,
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where else would they go?
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That's what would have happened,
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had it not been that the Athenians,
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who had lately acquired, we know not how,
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control of a town on the north shore
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of the Corinthian Gulf called Naupactus.