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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: here need to be told that for size and importance Olynthus now stands
at the head of the Thracian cities. But are you aware that the
citizens of Olynthus had already brought over several states by the
bribe of joint citizenship and common laws; that they have forcibly
annexed some of the larger states; and that, so encouraged, they have
taken in hand further to free the cities of Macedonia from Amyntas the
king of the Macedonians; that, as soon as their immediate neighbours
had shown compliance, they at once proceeded to attack larger and more
distant communities; so much so, that when we started to come hither,
we left them masters not only of many other places, but of Pella
itself, the capital of Macedonia. Amyntas,[15] we saw plainly, must
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