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When the Eretrians learned that the Persian expedition was sailing to attack them, they asked for help from the Athenians. The Athenians did not refuse the aid, but gave them for defenders the four thousand tenant farmers who held the land of the Chalcidian horse-breeders. 1 But it seems that all the plans of the Eretrians were unsound; they sent to the Athenians for aid, but their counsels were divided.
When the Eretrians learned that the Persian expedition was sailing to attack them, they asked for help from the Athenians. The Athenians did not refuse the aid, but gave them for defenders the four thousand tenant farmers who held the land of the Chalcidian horse-breeders. 1 But it seems that all the plans of the Eretrians were unsound; they sent to the Athenians for aid, but their counsels were divided.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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