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“O King,” Adrastus answered, “I would not otherwise have gone into such an arena. One so unfortunate as I should not associate with the prosperous among his peers; nor have I the wish so to do, and for many reasons I would have held back.

Herodotus, with an English translation by A. D. Godley. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 1920.

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