It is only speculation, but it seems to make sense and we know we don't hear of such troubles within Athens and Thebes, and Sparta.

这只是猜测,但却有理可言,我们在雅典,底比斯和斯巴达,都没有看到这些状况

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Within his own lifetime, Aristotle would see Athens, Sparta, and the other great cities of Greece swallowed up by the great Macedonian Empire to the north.

在他有生之年，亚里士多德看到雅典，斯巴达，和其它重要的希腊城市,被北方的,马其顿帝国并吞。

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