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The three of them looked at each other.

Zantiparis hurriedly comforted him and said, "Agacia, you have done nothing wrong! We are all so grateful to you for saving us from that battlefield of death in Asia Minor! As long as we stay patiently in the alliance and believe that we will eventually get citizenship and land, we are just a little uncomfortable now. As for Sparta, you have to believe me and Timason, for at least three or four years they can't do anything hostile to the Alliance! ”

The Greeks liked to drink wine with water, thinking that it would not be easy to get drunk and made foolish moves, but tonight Agascia did not drink beer, and drank all the wine without water, and finally got drunk.

Timason, with great difficulty, helped him home.

When they came out, the three of them sighed.

Cleano pursed his lips and said, "He regrets asking us to come to Great Greece, isn't he ready to help us anymore?!" ”

"Agacia is not that kind of person!" Zantiparis shook his head: "I think he has been under too much pressure lately and wants to drink and relax." However, we should really restrain those who don't listen! ”

The two argued for a while, but when they turned around, they saw Timasong walking slowly with his head down, pondering something.

"Timasson, what do you want?! It's time for us to go back to the docks! Criano shouted.

Timasong looked at them and said very seriously: "I still remember that Davers used to like to say, 'It's better to rely on others than on yourself'!" ”

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When Phoebidas arrived in Syracuse, he was greeted by Dionysius, who invited Phoebidas and his entourage to his palace and set up a banquet to accompany him.

Watching the seductive dance of the beautiful slave girls in the center of the banquet hall, Phoebidas, who had developed strong self-control in the barracks since childhood, also felt a dry mouth, and he poured several sips of wine.

I heard that Lysander lived in the city-states of Asia Minor under his control as the princes of the East, and it must have been like this! Phoebidas thought to himself.

"Phoebeidas, I heard you went to Dionia, is it done?" Dionysius asked casually, the Spartan warship had circled the Gulf of Taranto, and the news had already reached Syracuse.

"Yes, but it didn't work out." Phoebe admitted, with a bit of appreciation in her tone: "The consuls of the Dionian Alliance and the senators of the Senate are very tough, and even in the face of our Sparta, they will not give in at all!" ”

"Oh!" Dionysius was slightly surprised and said, "Sounds like you have a good impression of them?" ”

"Although the contact time is not long, I can feel that they respect war and victory, respect capable generals and warriors, and train very frequently, which is somewhat similar to us Spartans!" Phoebe Das did not hesitate to praise himself: "And this new alliance is developing very quickly, I heard that more than half a year ago it was only a small city-state, and now it has three cities and two affiliated alliances. I believe it won't be long before it becomes a powerful force dominating Greater Greece! ”

After hearing this, Dionysius squeezed out a smile: "This is a good thing, at least those natives of Great Greece have met opponents." Having said that, the glass he had been holding was put down with a "bang", and the wine spilled on the table, and he immediately turned the conversation to his army that was about to attack Carthage.

Phoebedars saw it in his eyes, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

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On the way back to Sparta, Dorobises, who had been holding back for a long time, asked, "Phoebitas, why did you praise Dionya at the banquet?" ”

"My compliments will keep Dionysius awake!" Phoebidas smirked and said, "Since the previous tyrant of Syracuse, Gelong, he has regarded Syracuse as the alliance between Sicily and Great Greece. I remember that the old man had said that Gelon even sent his army north to Campania in central Apennines to defeat the Etruscans besieging Cumai...... And Dionysius was even more ambitious, he used force to turn all the Greek city-states in southeastern Sicily into a subsidiary of Syracuse, would he allow a powerful force to appear in Greater Greece to threaten the status of Syracuse?! …… It's a pity that he was about to attack Carthage and couldn't take action against Dionya anytime soon......"

"Oh, that's right!" Dorobises suddenly realized, but he immediately asked again: "Since Dionysius is interested in Great Greece, then Dionysia may not be as important as Ligim and Crotone in his heart." ”

"Yes." Phoebidas admits this: "Dioonia is not as powerful as these traditional great Greek powers, but it is developing just as fast as this lustful Sicilian." ”

Dorobises recalled the spectacular sight he had seen when he was invited by Dionysius to inspect his army, and couldn't help but exclaim: "Speaking of which Dionysius is really powerful, he can actually send an army of fifty or sixty thousand people, and two or three thousand cavalry to attack Carthage!" ”

"Although there are many people, I don't think there are many soldiers who are really good at fighting!" Phoebidas was half telling the truth, and half was out of sour grapes, because even Sparta, which had become the overlord of Greece, could not send such a large army at one time, and the strength of Syracuse and its affiliated city-states can be imagined.

Let Syracuse, Carthage, and Dionya kill each other! Phoebe Das cursed inwardly.

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By the beginning of the new year (398 BC), the Tourii-Castelon Avenue had been fully built, and the thousands of Crotone captives of Theoria had returned to Crotone because the six-month deadline had expired.

For Davers, his mood is getting more and more nervous and excited, as Christoya's belly is moving more and more, and she is less than a month away from her due date.

At this time, news came from Niutum that Pothenia officially announced that it supported Akpiru's son Lusau to retake Grummentum and demanded that Sincinag return to Pikosis or Pothenia would send troops to the war.

Sincinag suddenly became nervous, and he took the initiative to send an emissary to the Grumentum tribes occupying the southern city, expressing his willingness to immediately carry out their previous request, as long as they could reunite together to deal with the approaching army of Poittia.

The tribal leaders were pleased with Sincinag's subservience, and they were afraid that if Lusau was allowed to retake Grumentum, they would settle accounts with them, because they knew that Lusau was just like his father, and he was a man of revenge.

Everyone thinks that it was external pressure that forced the two forces in Grumentum to compromise and come back together. However, when the leaders gladly came to the center of the city to prepare peace talks with Sincinag, they did not expect that Sincinag had ambushed a large number of soldiers in advance, and they broke out, killing all the leaders attending the meeting, and then launched a surprise attack.

The tribes of the southern city were killed by their leader and neglected to take precautions, and as a result, they suffered heavy casualties under the premeditated attack of the Pikosis warriors, and some of the warriors surrendered, and some fled from the city of Grummentum.

Sincinag, faced with a military threat from Poitya, went so far as to unify Grummentum in one fell swoop. Hearing the news, even Davers had to admire Cincinnag's decisiveness and ruthlessness, but he didn't know that Cincingag was able to do this, mostly because of the painful memory of being attacked from behind by the Wiggs.

Soon, Sesta sent a report to the Senate, saying that because of Sincinag's killing in Grummentum, some Lucarians had fled to Niutum, and that Pikosis and Poittia were about to go to war, and the small tribes sandwiched between the two powers were afraid of being drawn into the war, so that the number of registered reserve citizens in Niutum had skyrocketed to 8,000. Niutum did not have enough land to allot, nor was it able to support such a large population, and demanded that part of the Lucarians be relocated to Turiyi.

Davers and the senators deliberated back and forth, especially during this period when Niutum had been stable and the Lucanians had performed well, and finally they had reached an agreement: to relocate.

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Phoebidas returned to Sparta, and his debriefing on Dionya did not attract the attention of the Council of Elders. One of the reasons for this was his consistent self-reliance, which made the Spartan elders who knew him well resentful of his repeated remarks that "the Dionian League was disrespectful and unreasonable to Sparta, and must be punished", and instead concluded that he was the one who caused the trouble. The more important reason was that the elders did not have the energy to deal with this matter now, because Archis, one of the two kings of Sparta, had died of illness.

Since Homer's time, Sparta has been ruled by two kings, and kings who claim to be direct descendants of Hercules were born from two hereditary royal families: the family of Agidi, located in the center of Sparta, and the family of Euripontides, from southern Laconia. Akis was born into the Eupontides family. Although by this time, the royal power of Sparta had been greatly limited due to the rise of democracy, it still enjoyed many honors, especially at the time of his death, when the entire Spartan realm was preparing for the funeral of Agis: the cavalry traveled all over Laconia to announce the death of King Agis; The women beat the iron pot and reported the news in all parts of Sparta; After learning the news, each family must send two free people, a man and a woman wearing mourning clothes to keep filial piety; The Pisians were also required to send a fixed number of people to attend the funeral organized by the Council of Elders.

The funeral lasted ten days, during which no public affairs were conducted, and after ten days, the elders' first priority was to elect a new king.