Kitap 1
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The enemy decided not to lay siege to the city, but on their way back they built a wall through the air, so that the rays of the sun should no longer reach the moon. The wall was double, made of cloud, so that a genuine eclipse of the moon took place, and she was completely enshrouded in unbroken night. Hard pressed by this, Endymion sent and begged them to pull down the construction and not let them lead their lives in darkness. He promised to pay tribute, to be an ally and not to make war again, and volunteered to give hostages for all this. Phaethon and his people held two assemblies; on the first day they did not lay aside a particle of ‘their anger, but on the second day they softened, and the peace was made on these terms: Compare the Athenian-Spartan treaty, Thuc. 5, 18.
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On the following conditions the Sunites and their allies make peace with the Moonites and Heir allies, to wit: That the Sunites tear down the dividing- wall and do not invade the moon again, and that they make over the prisoners of war, each at a set ransom;
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That the Moonites permit the stars tu be autonomous, and do not make war on the Sunites;
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That each country aid the other if it be attacked;
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That in yearly tribute the King of the Moonites pay the King of the Sunites ten thousand gallons of dew, and that he give ten thousand of his people as hostages;
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That the colony on the Morning Star be planted in common, and that anyone else who so desires may take part in it;
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That the treaty be inseribed on a slab of electrum and set up in mid-air, on the common confines. Attested under hand and seal.
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(For the Sunites)
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Firebrace
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Parcher
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Burns
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(For the Moonites)
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Darkling
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Moony
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Allbright
