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SAMIPPUS

Let us now advance to Corinth over the hills after a prayer to Royal Zeus; and when we have conquered all of Greecewe shall have no opposition to our enormous numbers and have an easy victorywe shall embark on triremes, putting the cavalry on horse-transportsenough corn and sufficient boats and everything else is ready at Cenchreaelet us cross the Aegean to

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Ionia. There let us sacrifice to Artemis and capture the cities easilythey are unwalledleave governors behind, and press on to Syria through Caria first, then Lycia, Pamphylia, Pisidia, Cilicia (both coast and hill areas), until we reach the Euphrates.

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