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(Sthenelaidas:) If they behaved well in the Persian War and are now behaving badly to us they ought to be punished twice over, because they were once good men and have become bad.
(Book 1 Chapter 86.1)

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Thucydides (or Thoukydides)(c. 472 BC – c. 400 BC) was an ancient Greek historian, author of the History of the Peloponnesian War, which recounts the 5th century BC war between Sparta and Athens. This work is widely regarded a classic and represents the first work of its kind.

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