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Polybius

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This is a sworn treaty made between us, Hannibal ... and Xenophanes the Athenian ... in the presence of all the gods who possess Macedonia and the rest of Greece.
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Histories, VII, 9:4 (Loeb, W.R. Paton)

 
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