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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: ships. He also brought the crowns which he had received from the
cities as private gifts, and a sum of four hundred and seventy
talents[4] in silver (the surplus of the tribute money which Cyrus had
assigned to him for the prosecution of the war), besides other
property, the fruit of his military exploits. All these things
Lysander delivered to the Lacedaemonians in the latter end of
summer.[5]
[3] A council of ten, or "decarchy." See Grote, "H. G." viii. 323 (1st
ed.)
[4] About 112,800 pounds.
[5] The MSS. add "a summer, the close of which coincided with the
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