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Plutarch:Plutarch's Lives, Excerpt 85

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The coin of Persia was stamped with the figure of an archer; Agesilaus said, That a thousand Persian archers had driven him out of Asia; meaning the money that had been laid out in bribing the demagogues and the orators in Thebes and Athens, and thus inciting those two States to hostility against Sparta.

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Locator:Excerpt 85 · Verified:2026-10-19 · Verification:Short excerpt

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