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They enriched these Lysandrian creatures.
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As one of our ancient sources writes,
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the will of any Spartan was
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regarded as law in the subject cities.
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It is clear from all the ancient writers that the Spartans were
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not easy people in their dealings with other Greeks.
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Everything in their tradition made them feel superior to other Greeks
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and they didn't mind acting in that way.
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You remember the stories of how it was
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that the Athenian Empire was founded, or rather that Delian League--
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the Spartans had so alienated all the Greeks in that region
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by the way they treated them that