In France, Europe's most fertile and cultivated land, the tillers of it suffered more and more hunger.

Nay, pray you let him ſtay a greater Fits Menaphon, than warring with a Thiefe: Create him Prorex of Affrica, That he may win the Babilonians hearts, Which will reuolt from Perſean gouernment, Unleſſe they haue a wiſer King than you.

But the harmost and the Spartan garrison still retained their hold on their Akropoleis, or citadels, as a guarantee that Spartan interests should suffer no serious injury.

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