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“A soldier told Pelopidas, "We are fallen among the enemies." Said he, "How are we fallen among them more than they among us?"”
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- e770533bc689eda2b8f3e6ffad6089d92fd0eae6b42e9cd561dc757a125efb2d
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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