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Impossible-Row-3070 t1_ixiokyz wrote

Mostly by translation. Keep in mind leaders rarely met face to face, and most communication was thus written, usually by scribes rather than the leaders themselves. A leader with a lot of resources could probably find a scribe that speaks Persian and can write in the various forms of Greek common at the time, or vice versa. Also, leaders tended to be multilingual themselves.

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