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No doubt Histiaeus, and Aristagoras after him (ch. 124 f.), hoped to turn the great natural advantages of the district (ch. 11 n.) to good account. But the idea of a great Graeco-barbarian power in Thrace strong enough to be a danger to the Persian empire is strange.

οἰκηίῳ: either ‘within your own land’ (cf. Thuc. i. 118), or better, ‘of your own making.’

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