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Pericles didn't want to do that,
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but he didn't want the Megarians to get away scott free,
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and so he invented a new thing again,
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yet one more new idea,
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which I again regard as fundamentally a diplomatic device
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meant to deter the kind of behavior that was necessary to deter
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and that was this decree.
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And scholars have fought forever
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and a day about all aspects of it,
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and most importantly,
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about what it's for,
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why it's going on,