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let me back up; let me be very technical,
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from using the harbor of the Piraeus,
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from using the agora of Athens,
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or from using any of the ports of the empire.
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I'm being extremely technical and careful about this.
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If I were not I'd be simply saying that they were barring
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the Megarian trade from anywhere in the Athenian empire.
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I don't do so,
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because one brilliant late Oxford scholar
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came up with a theory about this event
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in which he tried to say no this was not an embargo,
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but it was in fact,