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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: Oneion,[4] and the Thebans were threatening to scale the pass. The
Arcadians and Eleians[5] were moving forwards through Nemea to effect
a junction with the Thebans, when a hint was conveyed to them by some
Phliasian exiles, "Only show yourselves before Phlius and the town is
yours." An agreement was made, and in the dead of night a party
consisting of the exiles themselves and others with them, about six
hundred in number, planted themselves close under the walls with
scaling-ladders. Presently the scouts from the Trikaranon signalled to
the city that the enemy was advancing. The citizens were all
attention; their eyes fixed upon their scouts. Meanwhile the traitors
within were likewise signalling to those seated under lee of the walls
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