The Arch Mede said:... The land of Carpathia, revealed for Spartan colonization by Apollo himself, has been stolen by Ithacans, who have foully murdered the innocent Spartan colonists.
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4. Odysseus recognises the right of Solmyr to seek vengeance for the wrongs inflicted on him and will not interfere with the execution of justice.
In celebration of their agreement, and in recognition of the good standing of Odysseus in Olympus, he is permitted to make offerings in the temple of Hephaestus in Ostmarch and Spartan offerings are also given there on his behalf.
After having read this description of the proceedings in Temesvar Odysseus swore an oath to Pallas Athena that
so called friends that wrongly accused his people of killing Spartians, that falsely claimed that Odysseus should have accepted that Sparta punishes anyone and that falsely stated that Odysseus visited the Spartan temple of Hephaestus, shall be dealt with in accordance with common sense, i.e. plundering their land and ravaging their girls.
And so it ended, with 13 years of plunder and rape while a Spartan army on Ithaca's soil was almost never seen. And thus its inhabitants lived peacefully until some golddigger from across the Sea landed with 100,000 men and assualted his way across some 4 provinces and then stabhitted twice for land until settling for 400d in peace demands.
When Midas had gotten his 400d he said something like "Midas has got his gold and can leave", but this was like the kitten who starts licking his paws after having mis-timed an attack on a mouse. Because as stated Midas first tried to get land, it was only when he apparently did not want to stage another huge attack, that he asked for money, only when he understood it cost more than it was worth.
Actually the number of Phrygian casulties are estimated to 70,000 men. Using the current price of Phrygian infantry and cavalry this means Phrygia actually spent more ducats on these men than what they got in the peace. Rumours are now plentiful in the Phrygian capital about the fact that their king cannot count. They even say that Midas is back at the school bench learning addition and subtraction of 3-digit numbers.