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Card 6

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"Upon that day/ They alone helped you drive him out" (Cleomened disposed of Hippias)

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Card 7

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"a little strange in the head"

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Card 8

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"went quite mad"

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Card 9

Front

"began to mutilate himself...until he reached his belly, and while he was cutting that he died"

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Card 10

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"punishment for having corrupted the priestess at Delphi"

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Card 11

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Punishment for "devastating the sacred land of Demeter and Persephone, when he marched to Eleusis"

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Card 12

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"made the helots drag the priest away from the alter and thrash him"

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Card 13

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"Cleomenes had been told by the Delphic oracle that he would take Argos"

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Card 14

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"ordered all the helots to pile faggots round the wood, set fire to them, and burn it to the ground"

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Card 15

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"the omens were not favourable"

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