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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Hellenica by Xenophon: Lacedaemonian hostility to them was that they had refused to march
against the Persian king with Agesilaus,[39] and would not even suffer
him to sacrifice to Artemis at Aulis (where Agamemnon sacrificed
before he set sail for Asia and captured Troy). In addition, there
were two things which contributed to raise the prestige of Thebes, and
redounded to the honour of Pelopidas. These were the victory of the
Thebans at Leuctra, and the indisputable fact that they had invaded
and laid waste the territory of Laconia. Pelopidas went on to point
out that the Argives and Arcadians had lately been defeated in battle
by the Lacedaemonians, when his own countrymen were not there to
assist. The Athenian Timagoras supported all these statements of the
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