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“As it is in the proverb, played Cretan against Cretan.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Life of Lysander.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 7d0321830a1fc21d1af4d6f69bb47685b92bd241d66cc44ae77fbd0d8c026ad8
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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