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Prophasis (plural prophases or prophaseis) are the actual reasons for going to war. These may differ from proschemata, the pretexts offered to the public. The term is Greek and was first popularized by Thucydides, who attempted to discern Athens' alethestate prophasis, or "truest reason" for waging war on Sparta in the Peloponnesian War.
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