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A67709 Xenophon's history of the affairs of Greece in seven books : being a continuation of the Peloponnesian War, from the time where Thucydides ends, to the battel at Mantinea : to which is prefixed an abstract of Thucydides and a brief account of the land and naval forces of the ancient Greeks / translated from the Greek by John Newman. Xenophon.; Newman, John. 1685 (1685) Wing X19; ESTC R31868 205,778 512

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